This thread is a spin off from the "swimming against the young guns" thread. Many of us Masters compete in USA Swimming meets each year and have found these meets to be a very enjoyable....for many reasons. Tell us your favorite experience(s). I have been swimming USA meets for the past two years and have a bunch of them. I am 37. I'll start off with this one...
"Kids say the darndest things" (part 1):
I entered my first long course meters meet two summers ago. A group of 15+ year old boys were looking at the heat/lane posting on the wall. They said, "Wow, look at this old guy...he entered his yards time...he doesn't even know this is a meters meet...we're gonna whip his butt...this is gonna be great!" And they all high fived each other.
They were quite wrong.
Since my husband and I have been swimming in USA Swimming meets for the last 5 or 6 years (in fact we're swimming in one next weekend) our participation doesn't garner quite the entertaining responses that it used to. The best one had to be at the Illinois Senior State Meet the summer of 1997 when Bob (at 33) had qualified for finals in the 50 free. After the morning swim we were talking to some of the kids we knew at the meet and overheard a couple of boys walking by talking about and in utter disbelief of "some old guy in biking shorts qualifying for finals". (The jammer had just started showing up at Masters meets but the kids had yet to start wearing them).
Since my husband and I have been swimming in USA Swimming meets for the last 5 or 6 years (in fact we're swimming in one next weekend) our participation doesn't garner quite the entertaining responses that it used to. The best one had to be at the Illinois Senior State Meet the summer of 1997 when Bob (at 33) had qualified for finals in the 50 free. After the morning swim we were talking to some of the kids we knew at the meet and overheard a couple of boys walking by talking about and in utter disbelief of "some old guy in biking shorts qualifying for finals". (The jammer had just started showing up at Masters meets but the kids had yet to start wearing them).