What is the fastest age for a swimmer(mine seems to be faster as i get older and yes i swam as a youngster...now im 37..)?
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Originally posted by dorothyrd
One friend who has been swimming all his life could not believe I was going to do a 400 IM. He looked at me in disbelief and said, "Can you do it?". I said "sure", and he stayed and watched and said I impressed the heck out of him for stepping up there and doing that, especially as sick as I was. Course what are friends for, right!
I watched in amazement last month as an 81-year-old man got up on the blocks and did a 200y IM, and then, in the very next heat, got up there again and did a 200y Butterfly!
Ion - see you at Undianapolis at Nationals.
With that monstrous $85K salary, you can probably go first class - on Greyhound. Dude, you really need to stop crowing about $85K in the high tech industry. That is well below average, along with your 100 times.
Ion, concentrate really really hard and you'll get Undianapolis.
Your unqualified and unliterate friend,
geek
And, for the record, you'd be many, many heats before me in the 100. Train hard, Uon, and try to see some lower times. Until then, keep turing those 114 100s in the 1000.
Beza - you'd figure a simple spell check or web search would come naturally to someone as highly paid in the high tech industry as you. Or, I guess maybe you aren't what you proclaim. I suspect your next promotion will be to the hot food line at the Intel cafeteria.
For the record, the following sites/source DO NOT recognize unqualifications:
Microsoft Word 2002, SP-2
Microsoft Office XP
dictionary.com - did not recognize un qualification or un-qualifications
miriamwebster.com
Stick to swimming, Ion.
This:
Originally posted by aquageek
I will not violate a person's privacy and give you name Ion.
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is your attempt to cope out.
Originally posted by aquageek
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Ion - good luck with your job. Maybe you will make $87K soon and can join the first shift COBOL help desk at Intel. If you learn Java or SAP you could even aspire to make what a US recent colege grad makes in high tech in So. Cal. If you are gonna start boasting about your salary, better make sure you know what you're talking about first.
You don't know what you talk about.
Every statement here shows your un-qualifications.
For example, my salary is higher than the figure that you claim, higher than yours -a native of the U.S. who is not schooled well-, help desk at Intel in San Diego is in the $40k, recent college grads at Intel are in the $60k (and it is spelled college not colege like you wrote, which shows that you are in need of elementary-school learning in your native language), I already use Java, and I design and implement D.S.P. algorithms which are beyond your literacy.
After this lesson that I gave you in swimming 1,000 and in education, I assess your 'expertise' in life with this statement:
your mediocrity is excellence to the mediocre.
I feel like I'm at the dog park watching them all battle to piss on the same tree! :)
I've got quite a different training strategy:
- Swim no more than 3 days a week
- Stay under 3000 yds
- Drink beer, eat pizza
- Show up at a meet every once in awhile
I AM one of the 1000s of lazy swimmers east & west that Ion is describing!
And damn proud of it!
Originally posted by Paul Smith
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I AM one of the 1000s of lazy swimmers east & west that Ion is describing!
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Of course you are.
It is well known in USMS that you are.
But wasn't in 1984 that you went 51 in the 100 meter free at the U.S. Olympic Trials?
So you weren't lazy then when you built your age-group swimming aerobic base.
That transfers to your easy ride in USMS at a lower standard.
Me, I build my aerobic base now, as an adult and in USMS.
Physiology wise this is a bigger challenge to accomplish than the aerobic base of a growing age-group swimmer.
