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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I think this is for me:
Originally posted by msgrupp
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People, and some of you probably recognize yourselves,--Get a life!!! Meet people other than swimmers! Read a book--and not about swimming or swimming methods!
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To which I respond, that you have a life, when:
a.) you speak four languages like I do;
b.) you make 100% of your living in the third language, not in your native, not in a second, but in a third;
c.) the I.N.S. brings you in U.S. because there are not enough qualified local scientists at the level of your work;
d.) you are a late bloomer in swimming, training to fit among the top 10% anywhere in U.S.;
e.) you follow the sport, in order to excel.
Now, I meet a.), b.), c.) and d.) which is not ordinary, and I bet that you don't meet them.
Do you think that I don't have a life but that you do?
It is the other way around...
I think this is for me:
Originally posted by msgrupp
...
People, and some of you probably recognize yourselves,--Get a life!!! Meet people other than swimmers! Read a book--and not about swimming or swimming methods!
...
To which I respond, that you have a life, when:
a.) you speak four languages like I do;
b.) you make 100% of your living in the third language, not in your native, not in a second, but in a third;
c.) the I.N.S. brings you in U.S. because there are not enough qualified local scientists at the level of your work;
d.) you are a late bloomer in swimming, training to fit among the top 10% anywhere in U.S.;
e.) you follow the sport, in order to excel.
Now, I meet a.), b.), c.) and d.) which is not ordinary, and I bet that you don't meet them.
Do you think that I don't have a life but that you do?
It is the other way around...
