I feel a little like our old friend Ion Beza. He always complains about the age groups that he swam in and how unfair it is. Anyway, I saw the NT's for my age group and in the 100's there were 2 second drops from last year and in the 200's 4 seconds drop. Anyway, it drives home on how medicroe I am and worst in my middle age than my youth. Granted, I can swim butterfly better than last year but the best stroke breaststroke hasn't improved since last summer. Anyone else feel the same way. I know that in your middle years swimming should be more of an exercise and I don't want the shoulder operations or knee prpblems that some master swimmers had.
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I just have read some threads on these forums where there is a little bit of griping about Nationals being too big, and it sounded a little like there was some people who would like the times to be more restrictive and not allow non NQT. That is probably a small percentage.
I think Illinois Masters has plenty of people to pick for relays, lots and lots of very fast people, so I doubt if I would be needed for that. Having Nationals so close makes it tempting to attend, even if for one day. I even thought about offering my services to the volunteers just so I could see what it was like. I am very good at running the computers at the age group meets, but they probably have their people all set for that.
I just have read some threads on these forums where there is a little bit of griping about Nationals being too big, and it sounded a little like there was some people who would like the times to be more restrictive and not allow non NQT. That is probably a small percentage.
I think Illinois Masters has plenty of people to pick for relays, lots and lots of very fast people, so I doubt if I would be needed for that. Having Nationals so close makes it tempting to attend, even if for one day. I even thought about offering my services to the volunteers just so I could see what it was like. I am very good at running the computers at the age group meets, but they probably have their people all set for that.
