The Fastest Age

Originally posted by aquageek ... Immediately post your meet times on this forum from 8 months after you started 16 years ago. That will really put this all into perspective. ... You know what, Swampygeek? I have them at home. Some of them remain my lifetime bests in a 25 meter pool. Like going 28.xx in a 50 meter free. All what I did since then was to delay my aging, by staying stale or improving a little. When people look at me they guess that I am younger than my chronological age. Technique doesn't improve much and the fight against aging is physiological based pretty much on the baseline that one had to begin with, as an adult past teenage growing years. The key is physiology not technique, and past teenage years physiology is not going to improve much. Connie is not going to be different than me on this. For example, in 1986 in France I did a 20:3x.yy -I believe 20:32.yy- in 1,500 meter free in a 25 meter pool, just a few months after joining my first swimming club. The exact time is in my diary in my apartment. The only time when I could have beaten this is when in September 1995, in Canada, together with Mark Oldham (look for his rankings in Masters in www.fina.org), I did a set of 4x400 meters Long Course leaving every 5:30. When I saw Mark last time in September 2002, he remembers this set. (In Canada I also swam with O'Hare, Draxinger, Berger, Henning -bronze winner in the 200 back in the 1984 Olympics-, Gyorfi and Wayburn). I was doing in 1986 in a club in France 1:04.xx in the 100 meter free in a 25 meter pool, within two months of joining the club. It got down to 1:03.20 within one year. It got down to 1:02.84 in a 25 meter pool in Canada in 1992. Little bits of improvement, thru physiology not technique, that delayed aging so far. Connie is not going to be better than this, including with all her 'technique' talk. At low speed the technique is easy to be good, at high speed under the stress of the load technique degrades and speed improves. Is all in physiology. Mostly developed in age-group swimming.

Originally posted by aquageek ... Immediately post your meet times on this forum from 8 months after you started 16 years ago. That will really put this all into perspective. ... You know what, Swampygeek? I have them at home. Some of them remain my lifetime bests in a 25 meter pool. Like going 28.xx in a 50 meter free. All what I did since then was to delay my aging, by staying stale or improving a little. When people look at me they guess that I am younger than my chronological age. Technique doesn't improve much and the fight against aging is physiological based pretty much on the baseline that one had to begin with, as an adult past teenage growing years. The key is physiology not technique, and past teenage years physiology is not going to improve much. Connie is not going to be different than me on this. For example, in 1986 in France I did a 20:3x.yy -I believe 20:32.yy- in 1,500 meter free in a 25 meter pool, just a few months after joining my first swimming club. The exact time is in my diary in my apartment. The only time when I could have beaten this is when in September 1995, in Canada, together with Mark Oldham (look for his rankings in Masters in www.fina.org), I did a set of 4x400 meters Long Course leaving every 5:30. When I saw Mark last time in September 2002, he remembers this set. (In Canada I also swam with O'Hare, Draxinger, Berger, Henning -bronze winner in the 200 back in the 1984 Olympics-, Gyorfi and Wayburn). I was doing in 1986 in a club in France 1:04.xx in the 100 meter free in a 25 meter pool, within two months of joining the club. It got down to 1:03.20 within one year. It got down to 1:02.84 in a 25 meter pool in Canada in 1992. Little bits of improvement, thru physiology not technique, that delayed aging so far. Connie is not going to be better than this, including with all her 'technique' talk. At low speed the technique is easy to be good, at high speed under the stress of the load technique degrades and speed improves. Is all in physiology. Mostly developed in age-group swimming.