People have tried to make it clear to you, Ion, that you will not be recognized by USMS or SWIM magazine unless you swim a lot faster. They have also tried to point out, in a nutshell, that your attitude comes across as sour grapes.
I am going to postulate that you would like to be recognized for overcoming whatever it is you have overcome. SWIM magazine doesn't have the space to do it. And they certainly don't have the manpower (interviewers and photographers) to cover every story there is to tell, especially in regard to overcoming adversity.
So, here it is. I wish everyone would take the chance to tell their stories. Think of it as a SWIM web page for sharing of personal histories.
I know Tom Ellison has an amazing story that I wish he would put here. I know of many other swimmers who have overcome tremendous adversity. I hope this thread will become an inspiration to us all, and that we will all realize, as I have lately, that: looking at the past can be painful, so don't (as long as you don't repeat it!), who knows what the future holds, so quit worrying about it, and be happy in the present because it's the only thing you really have control over.
Originally posted by lefty
Sorry Geek, Ion breaths eats and sleeps just like the rest of us. Ion has worries, Ion has goals, Ion has cares.
An orangutan has those same qualities. But you notice that I don't compare a primate to Ion... In this electronic forum, we can only respond based on what people post. Ion and AquaGeek do not post the same.
AquaGeek doesn't need an defending, but maybe Lefty remembers reading a certain thread. (It may have been the accidently deleted thread.) AG said (in his own way) that people shouldn't resort to personal attacks against Ion. Well, a few pages later, Ion took pieces of Geek's post, out of context, and used it as an example of how AquaGeek was resorting to personal attacks against Ion. (!!) AG noticed this, called Ion on the issue, and failed to receive a response (let alone an apology). Whenever I feel that AG is going over the top, or that Ion needs defending, I try to use this episode (among many others) to keep my priorities straight.
Originally posted by lefty
Sorry Geek, Ion breaths eats and sleeps just like the rest of us. Ion has worries, Ion has goals, Ion has cares.
An orangutan has those same qualities. But you notice that I don't compare a primate to Ion... In this electronic forum, we can only respond based on what people post. Ion and AquaGeek do not post the same.
AquaGeek doesn't need an defending, but maybe Lefty remembers reading a certain thread. (It may have been the accidently deleted thread.) AG said (in his own way) that people shouldn't resort to personal attacks against Ion. Well, a few pages later, Ion took pieces of Geek's post, out of context, and used it as an example of how AquaGeek was resorting to personal attacks against Ion. (!!) AG noticed this, called Ion on the issue, and failed to receive a response (let alone an apology). Whenever I feel that AG is going over the top, or that Ion needs defending, I try to use this episode (among many others) to keep my priorities straight.
