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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There are two points that I make:
1.) In life I look down on the character of people who don't keep a promise.
This is an excerpt from an e-mail I wrote today, explaining my education on this:
"It is not the story that I miss, since my achievements didn't depend on it.
It is the lack of your education that I miss:
when making a promise, any promise, in my education the promise maker owes the promise made to the recipient of the promise.
It is called keeping one's word, otherwise known as integrity
(and one can get out of the promise only by asking the recipient of the promise to be let out of the promise):"
2) the only new information to my knowledge in the Sept./Oct. 2003 issue (and I went thru 'Old Folks at World Championships' in page 8 as thru old news to me) was on the back cover of the magazine, showing 1972 Olympian Steve Furniss having founded in 1985 the TYR swimwear company;
nothing else in the issue exciting for my lifestyle, just fluff.
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Former Member
There are two points that I make:
1.) In life I look down on the character of people who don't keep a promise.
This is an excerpt from an e-mail I wrote today, explaining my education on this:
"It is not the story that I miss, since my achievements didn't depend on it.
It is the lack of your education that I miss:
when making a promise, any promise, in my education the promise maker owes the promise made to the recipient of the promise.
It is called keeping one's word, otherwise known as integrity
(and one can get out of the promise only by asking the recipient of the promise to be let out of the promise):"
2) the only new information to my knowledge in the Sept./Oct. 2003 issue (and I went thru 'Old Folks at World Championships' in page 8 as thru old news to me) was on the back cover of the magazine, showing 1972 Olympian Steve Furniss having founded in 1985 the TYR swimwear company;
nothing else in the issue exciting for my lifestyle, just fluff.
