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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Again, you need to read the posts carefully and concentrate on what is being asked rather on how you can respond in the most inflammatory manner possible.
All I ask for is data. I am not looking for newspaper articles or quotes from coaches. The last I checked the Baltimore paper was not a peer-reviewed publication which is what I specifically asked for in my initial post. I am looking for real scientific data to support your claim that "As for 10 years old, it means she has more hormones than an adult" and that this is the reason that she is faster than you. Please stop dodging the question and provide the data. If you can not provide the data, do not respond.
In addition, please do not try to insult me with statements such as "Mary, they do not teach you everything over there, in endocrinology." I will admit that I do not know everything, but I have been taught to recognize when someone is full of it.
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Former Member
Again, you need to read the posts carefully and concentrate on what is being asked rather on how you can respond in the most inflammatory manner possible.
All I ask for is data. I am not looking for newspaper articles or quotes from coaches. The last I checked the Baltimore paper was not a peer-reviewed publication which is what I specifically asked for in my initial post. I am looking for real scientific data to support your claim that "As for 10 years old, it means she has more hormones than an adult" and that this is the reason that she is faster than you. Please stop dodging the question and provide the data. If you can not provide the data, do not respond.
In addition, please do not try to insult me with statements such as "Mary, they do not teach you everything over there, in endocrinology." I will admit that I do not know everything, but I have been taught to recognize when someone is full of it.
