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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Well, I agree with you about the late swimming in the sport. I could complain about taking 25 years off and that explains why I swim 13 seconds slower in the *** at a 100 meter swim. But the language problem is real many immirgants do have problems with written English and Ion is much better than most. The state he is from many immirgants didn't even have a grade school education and can not write either English or Spanish since many of them come from rural parts of Mexico or Central America or Southeast Asian countries like Laos and can't write in either English or Laoan.
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Well, I agree with you about the late swimming in the sport. I could complain about taking 25 years off and that explains why I swim 13 seconds slower in the *** at a 100 meter swim. But the language problem is real many immirgants do have problems with written English and Ion is much better than most. The state he is from many immirgants didn't even have a grade school education and can not write either English or Spanish since many of them come from rural parts of Mexico or Central America or Southeast Asian countries like Laos and can't write in either English or Laoan.
