At the risk of sounding like a shameless self-promoter, which I suppose I am, there is an article in the Winter 2004 edition of Men's Health--Best Life magazine (the guy from CSI is on the cover) that I wrote about masters swimming. It's set at the Rutgers meet last summer and profiles a couple guys in my age group along with Bill Volckening, the editor of Swim and a super nice guy.
If you have any friends who are sitting on the fence about possibly returning to the water, the people I profiled might help inspire them to check out our sport's considerable benefits.
Best Life is a trial magazine of sorts that Rodale (publisher of Men's Health, Runners World, etc.) is currently selling only on the newsstand, four times a year, but is considering "launching" as a monthly. It goes against the current grain of men's magazines a la Maxim and its ilk, concentrating less on babes and beer than thoughtful analysis of subjects of interest to a somewhat older more reflective audience (40ish+) as opposed to youth oriented (18-34) demographics. I would sincerely appreciate anyone who has a bit of spare change grabbing a copy on the newstand near you!
For what it's worth, I do think you might enjoy my article--and lots of the other pieces in this issue. Thanks.
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Ian, Thanks for the Canadian Nationals info. It sounds like it will be another great meet. You will probably draw a lot of US swimmers especially those from the West Coast. By the way, you forgot to mention some of the other great swimmers in the 50-54 age group at Montreal, particularly Bruce Robertson who won a silver medal at the Munich Olympics behind Mark Spitz. And, if the printed results of last weeks Zone meet at Rutgers are right, Paul Trevisan just regained his 100 free record. Apparently he led off a relay with a 54.61 SCM split. We will have to get Thornton to write about Paul's training for SWIM. Jack
Ian, Thanks for the Canadian Nationals info. It sounds like it will be another great meet. You will probably draw a lot of US swimmers especially those from the West Coast. By the way, you forgot to mention some of the other great swimmers in the 50-54 age group at Montreal, particularly Bruce Robertson who won a silver medal at the Munich Olympics behind Mark Spitz. And, if the printed results of last weeks Zone meet at Rutgers are right, Paul Trevisan just regained his 100 free record. Apparently he led off a relay with a 54.61 SCM split. We will have to get Thornton to write about Paul's training for SWIM. Jack
