The Fastest Age

Originally posted by Mary ... Anyway, I just wanted to provide some evidence that not all tri folks are swimming for fitness. The triathlete workouts are for fitness because like I tell them their race (say Ironman Hawaii) is a 9 hours long workout. They don't taper for it, and they train in fitness for it. I used to swim at UCSD. Roch Frey and Spencer Smith go there. Spencer Smith is a fast swimmer (1:10 intervals per 100 yards), and watching him flip turn is like watching a truck doing flip turns. My lifetime slowest meet was the 2002 Long Course Nationals in Cleveland, when fitness -not competitiveness- hijacked UCSD. I moved to Swim Smarter where one coach is the distance coach of the UCSD swimming varsity team, another is a 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials racer, another coached Steve Crocker (U.S.) in Sain Louis, Missouri in the 90s -Steve Crocker was #3 sprinter in the world in the 90s, behind Tom Jager (U.S.) and Matt Biondi (U.S.)-, etc.. These coaches do the swimmer -not the triathlete- program. In the 2003 Short Course Nationals I swam my second lifetime best 100 free under them.

Originally posted by Mary ... Anyway, I just wanted to provide some evidence that not all tri folks are swimming for fitness. The triathlete workouts are for fitness because like I tell them their race (say Ironman Hawaii) is a 9 hours long workout. They don't taper for it, and they train in fitness for it. I used to swim at UCSD. Roch Frey and Spencer Smith go there. Spencer Smith is a fast swimmer (1:10 intervals per 100 yards), and watching him flip turn is like watching a truck doing flip turns. My lifetime slowest meet was the 2002 Long Course Nationals in Cleveland, when fitness -not competitiveness- hijacked UCSD. I moved to Swim Smarter where one coach is the distance coach of the UCSD swimming varsity team, another is a 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials racer, another coached Steve Crocker (U.S.) in Sain Louis, Missouri in the 90s -Steve Crocker was #3 sprinter in the world in the 90s, behind Tom Jager (U.S.) and Matt Biondi (U.S.)-, etc.. These coaches do the swimmer -not the triathlete- program. In the 2003 Short Course Nationals I swam my second lifetime best 100 free under them.