Today, I swam the 200 yards free in 2:09.11.
This beats my previous best of 2:09.54 from April 1994.
I challenged the 2:09.54 in the past 11 years, over 20 times, many times under what I learned the hard way to be the wrong preparation, and never came close.
My result will be posted officially in the USMS databse.
I won't be able to make the 2005 Short Course Nationals, but hopefully I will make the 2005 Long Course Nationals.
The reason that I bring this success here is that there are some lessons to learn from it:
1.) to pursue virtue and excellence by meeting the intrinsic requirements that come to having a worthwhile goal (in my case, the goal is to stay in my prime intellectually and physically, for longtime), that's intelligence and tenacious work;
I immigrated to U.S. and relocated within U.S. on job skills in science to live my lifestyle;
this lifestyle comprises now, over 39 weeks of the 2004-2005 season so far, of 1,093 kilometers of training (an average of 28.025 kilometers per week, or 30,828 yards per week, no matter the holidays, tapering or illness, that includes kicking, strokes, and technique quotas), the most mileage I slowly built my late starter physiology up to in life, mostly under a Masters club with primarly college and age group swimming expertise, which I searched for and choosed;
I also cross train consistently in weights and running;
2.) I scrutinize self-indulgence and greed (to an employer who was asking me to work overtime like his Japanese employees do, even though I was ahead in schedule in a project, and who thought that I am a slave to him giving me a work visa, I stated "You know, my life doesn't depend on you." and I walked away from a near six-figures salary because it was jeopardizing my swim training; I looked for and found another) and I scrutinize good intentions backed up by feelings without hard data.
2:09.11 and staying in my prime, that's a tribute to 1.) and 2.).
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Originally posted by dorothyrde
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You want to discuss your process that achieved this.
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HEy I did think of a question. I saw you swim at Spring Nationals in 2004, and one thing I noticed was that you could cut time by improving your turns. In your process to get faster, did you focus on things like your turns, and what technique tips helped you the most?
This is my last post.
I am off to www.usswim.org because a friend convinces me that this thread is a this for that, and not about bettering oneself thru a process, which is what I intended it to be.
If the masses want fries and coke, then give them fries and coke.
The last three posts, including the one by Lindsay, are serious.
But Lindsay can debate me me in www.usswim.org
To answer your question Dorothy, I have a weakness in turns, I practiced good turns for 39 weeks, good turns are still not efficient for me as I look at the clock in repeats in wokouts, bad turns are more efficient for me in workouts and meets, my bad turns are not efficient when compared to the good turns of others, and in the 2005 Long Course Nationals I hope to do the good turns in a 1500 meters free because the walls come slower than in short course so I have more time to think.
In the 2004 Short Course nationals I swam the 200 free in 2:11.10 and I was happy, May 15 2005 I swam the 200 free in 2:09.11, a lifetime best.
I swam it with the same technique, it's only my fitness that improves gradually in this Masters program that I joined in November 2002.
As a side note, when I was not posting in the past year, I followed your posts Dorothy about your son's progression, from a 2:02 a year and a half ago in the 200 free, to 1:56 now that he grew to almost 6 feet, a tribute again to -what I think- is possible in bodies developing their swimming physiology at age 17.
Good bye.
Originally posted by dorothyrde
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You want to discuss your process that achieved this.
...
HEy I did think of a question. I saw you swim at Spring Nationals in 2004, and one thing I noticed was that you could cut time by improving your turns. In your process to get faster, did you focus on things like your turns, and what technique tips helped you the most?
This is my last post.
I am off to www.usswim.org because a friend convinces me that this thread is a this for that, and not about bettering oneself thru a process, which is what I intended it to be.
If the masses want fries and coke, then give them fries and coke.
The last three posts, including the one by Lindsay, are serious.
But Lindsay can debate me me in www.usswim.org
To answer your question Dorothy, I have a weakness in turns, I practiced good turns for 39 weeks, good turns are still not efficient for me as I look at the clock in repeats in wokouts, bad turns are more efficient for me in workouts and meets, my bad turns are not efficient when compared to the good turns of others, and in the 2005 Long Course Nationals I hope to do the good turns in a 1500 meters free because the walls come slower than in short course so I have more time to think.
In the 2004 Short Course nationals I swam the 200 free in 2:11.10 and I was happy, May 15 2005 I swam the 200 free in 2:09.11, a lifetime best.
I swam it with the same technique, it's only my fitness that improves gradually in this Masters program that I joined in November 2002.
As a side note, when I was not posting in the past year, I followed your posts Dorothy about your son's progression, from a 2:02 a year and a half ago in the 200 free, to 1:56 now that he grew to almost 6 feet, a tribute again to -what I think- is possible in bodies developing their swimming physiology at age 17.
Good bye.
