I like the article in swim Magazine about Rita Egan and Sylvia powell. These women are not your typical slim young swimmers that are elite swimmers but like the rest of us ordinary. Actually, given my previous background in swimming I'm also won of these average jills. As a youth I swam the 100 meter *** at 1:30 and as a 46 at 1:43.31. So, many of us do it for enjoyment and some exercise knowing that we will never be at the top of the pack. I think we should have more of these stories?. And Ion believe me you are not that bad. You did a 2:31 200 meter freestyle. I recently swam a 3:15. So don't feel bad and their is alot more competition in the men than in the women in 45 to 49. Not saying that their are not good swimmers in the women.
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Having lived in several other countries I believe Peter's point is a valid one and may be the source of some of the problems we (the other posters) are having with him. Ion may also be working in an environment where strong debate and attacks on one's position are the norm. Until I realized that the 'attacks' were not truely personal, but part of intellectual debate that serves to train free thinking and to break through long standing barriers to progress, I had a hard time adjusting to life in graduate school.
However, at the risk of using a tired trite phrase... when in Rome... Ion would do well to heed that. The ability to adapt one's behavior, when and where it needs to be, to meet the demands of the environmemt is the mark of a well functioning individual.
I would also like to apologize to this board and Ion for posting several harsh messages. I always strive to say what I mean, but to say it in a way that is neither sugar coated nor mean. However, at times, the cold hard truth, stated bluntly, is the only way to get through.
Having lived in several other countries I believe Peter's point is a valid one and may be the source of some of the problems we (the other posters) are having with him. Ion may also be working in an environment where strong debate and attacks on one's position are the norm. Until I realized that the 'attacks' were not truely personal, but part of intellectual debate that serves to train free thinking and to break through long standing barriers to progress, I had a hard time adjusting to life in graduate school.
However, at the risk of using a tired trite phrase... when in Rome... Ion would do well to heed that. The ability to adapt one's behavior, when and where it needs to be, to meet the demands of the environmemt is the mark of a well functioning individual.
I would also like to apologize to this board and Ion for posting several harsh messages. I always strive to say what I mean, but to say it in a way that is neither sugar coated nor mean. However, at times, the cold hard truth, stated bluntly, is the only way to get through.
