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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Originally posted by c j
Ion . . .
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The sport just interests me, and I'm just curious what your beef is with fat people and a magazine called SWIM.
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I told fat people where I was prior to San Diego, in Tennessee, thinking of their body like if it was a car, what would they rather have a Toyota or a Lamborghini?
I tell fat people where I am now, in San Diego, "What's the point to be and look like you do when you are in year-long sunny and outdoorsy San Diego? You could be and look like this in a New Jersey shopping mall, too."
The following questions, connect with a post on the first page asking me what I would rather have in Swim magazine:
.) if fat and unhealthy people are worth cajoling in Swim magazine articles, then training like me in swimming as a late starter who catches up in a competitive way with the sport as it is being practiced by lifelong racers is that worth ignoring?
.) what about who Fritz Lehman (new world record holder in 100 meter back, in men 45 to 49), Bill Specht, Tom McCabe, Andreas Seibt, Barbara Dunbar, Paul Smith, Jim Thornton, Rich Abrahams are?
I know them better than Swim magazine does, with the exception of Rich maybe;
I re-peat: I know them better than Swim magazine does;
how are they training (I know better than Swim magazine about how Tom McCabe -a tough sprinter- tapers, he wrote me a technical e-mail on this, and gee, it doesn't look like a Swim magazine fluffy article), how are they living and working, how are their families and how is their support, is that worth ignoring by Swim magazine, too?
it was last summer, in July, before the 2002 Long Course Nationals, that in a thread in this forum it appeared that a bigger emphasis on performances by adults and supporting this with TV exposure of the Masters Nationals, and with an in-depth interest in performers' lifes by Swim magazine -including sponsorships-, is needed;
lack of sponsorship, I guess that might be part of why one doesn't see a re-peat in 2003 of the 1:58 for 200 meter free by Paul Smith swam in 2001;
the potential is there though, just ignored and wasted with fluff from the likes of Sept./Oct. 2003 Swim magazine issue, and re-iterated by mssgrupp's take in this thread that there are better things to do in life.
Originally posted by c j
Ion . . .
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The sport just interests me, and I'm just curious what your beef is with fat people and a magazine called SWIM.
...
I told fat people where I was prior to San Diego, in Tennessee, thinking of their body like if it was a car, what would they rather have a Toyota or a Lamborghini?
I tell fat people where I am now, in San Diego, "What's the point to be and look like you do when you are in year-long sunny and outdoorsy San Diego? You could be and look like this in a New Jersey shopping mall, too."
The following questions, connect with a post on the first page asking me what I would rather have in Swim magazine:
.) if fat and unhealthy people are worth cajoling in Swim magazine articles, then training like me in swimming as a late starter who catches up in a competitive way with the sport as it is being practiced by lifelong racers is that worth ignoring?
.) what about who Fritz Lehman (new world record holder in 100 meter back, in men 45 to 49), Bill Specht, Tom McCabe, Andreas Seibt, Barbara Dunbar, Paul Smith, Jim Thornton, Rich Abrahams are?
I know them better than Swim magazine does, with the exception of Rich maybe;
I re-peat: I know them better than Swim magazine does;
how are they training (I know better than Swim magazine about how Tom McCabe -a tough sprinter- tapers, he wrote me a technical e-mail on this, and gee, it doesn't look like a Swim magazine fluffy article), how are they living and working, how are their families and how is their support, is that worth ignoring by Swim magazine, too?
it was last summer, in July, before the 2002 Long Course Nationals, that in a thread in this forum it appeared that a bigger emphasis on performances by adults and supporting this with TV exposure of the Masters Nationals, and with an in-depth interest in performers' lifes by Swim magazine -including sponsorships-, is needed;
lack of sponsorship, I guess that might be part of why one doesn't see a re-peat in 2003 of the 1:58 for 200 meter free by Paul Smith swam in 2001;
the potential is there though, just ignored and wasted with fluff from the likes of Sept./Oct. 2003 Swim magazine issue, and re-iterated by mssgrupp's take in this thread that there are better things to do in life.
