Does anyone know when FINA posts its top 10 masters tabulation? It's now closing in on April; you would think they had time to figure out 2002 results?
Also, are there any other quasi-mediocre swimmers out there who by some miracle squeaked into the World Top 10 for their age group? I'm not talking about ex-Olympians or former NCAA stars for whom such an honor is no doubt like falling off a couch, almost more of an embarassment than something to boast about?
I'm talking about a fellow cannon fodder of a masters swimmer, someone who, for instance, earned C's in PE in grade school, who went on from such humble beginnings to squeak, near dotage, into the rarefied world listing against all odds?
If so, how did you celebrate? How did you let your friends know you were in the TOP 10 ON PLANET EARTH without it seeming too much like bragging?
Ah, but even asking such a question, I suspect, reeks of the kind of hubris that will doom my own miniscule chances of squeaking in...
Still, does anyone know when FINA posts its list?
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Oh, come on Jim, a lot of little boys and girls that don't have flexability or balance in grade school get C grades in PE. These days many grade schools don't even have PE or Recess, which is probably why so many kids are overweight. I was good to fair in PE in grade school, one of the few bright spots in myearly school career, since I learn to read and write later than the norm. Anyways, you have been at swimming for many years, granted you are doing good times for your age but it isn't like you took off a 30 year break like some of us. I'm not putting you down but some people perform better with age than others and those that have been doing master swimming from their 20's to 50 years old are probably going to be closer to their times when they were younger than some of us that took a big break from the sport or don't fair as well with aging.
Oh, come on Jim, a lot of little boys and girls that don't have flexability or balance in grade school get C grades in PE. These days many grade schools don't even have PE or Recess, which is probably why so many kids are overweight. I was good to fair in PE in grade school, one of the few bright spots in myearly school career, since I learn to read and write later than the norm. Anyways, you have been at swimming for many years, granted you are doing good times for your age but it isn't like you took off a 30 year break like some of us. I'm not putting you down but some people perform better with age than others and those that have been doing master swimming from their 20's to 50 years old are probably going to be closer to their times when they were younger than some of us that took a big break from the sport or don't fair as well with aging.
