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 Ion Beza
And you said last year to tape my defects at the 2004 Short Course Nationals.
But lied.
How is your last year's 2:57.77 in the 200 free coming along, Connie?
Any progress?
Actually, I did see and tape you in Indy last year, but I didn't see it appropriate to share that with people, knowing that they will most likely try to make you the laughing stock, and rejected various offers to share that footage. Seeing your diatribe in here, I'm almost regretting taking the high road on that one. *Almost*
Thank you for asking about my 200 free. (As if you really meant that - ha)
It's going very well, just like all of my other events. I dropped 10 seconds in 200 free, dropped if I remember right 8 seconds in 100 free, dropped several minutes in longer events. Moved up to a faster base lane in the workouts, my cardio conditioning has gotten a ton better, my resting heart rate dropped significantly, I lost 40 pounds, and I'm now to only 18% body fat. Little more to go.
I have to watch my yardage still, since my upper body muscles need more time to develop, and need to take appropriate rest time, so I don't get injured. The coach won't let me swim as much as I would like to, seeing that I have a slight tendency to overtrain.
I'm very pleased with my progress in barely 2 years of swimming.
Oh, yes, and I also got aqppointed the chair of the organizing comittee for the 2005 LCM Nationals, Voted to come to the USMS Convention as one of the SPMA Delegates, appointed on several comitties in SPMA, appointed a vice chair of the USMS marketingComitte, and I'm on couple of subcomittees of the USMS communications comittee. You know, trying to get involved and make difference in the organization that I'm involved in.
Rather than just posting here and whining about things, like you do.
I sort of kick myself in the rear right now not that I declined to be one of the administrator's 'forum ettiquette' watchers in here.
Well, hope to see you at our pool for the 2005 LCM Nationals. You should stop by and say hello.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
And you said last year to tape my defects at the 2004 Short Course Nationals.
But lied.
How is your last year's 2:57.77 in the 200 free coming along, Connie?
Any progress?
Actually, I did see and tape you in Indy last year, but I didn't see it appropriate to share that with people, knowing that they will most likely try to make you the laughing stock, and rejected various offers to share that footage. Seeing your diatribe in here, I'm almost regretting taking the high road on that one. *Almost*
Thank you for asking about my 200 free. (As if you really meant that - ha)
It's going very well, just like all of my other events. I dropped 10 seconds in 200 free, dropped if I remember right 8 seconds in 100 free, dropped several minutes in longer events. Moved up to a faster base lane in the workouts, my cardio conditioning has gotten a ton better, my resting heart rate dropped significantly, I lost 40 pounds, and I'm now to only 18% body fat. Little more to go.
I have to watch my yardage still, since my upper body muscles need more time to develop, and need to take appropriate rest time, so I don't get injured. The coach won't let me swim as much as I would like to, seeing that I have a slight tendency to overtrain.
I'm very pleased with my progress in barely 2 years of swimming.
Oh, yes, and I also got aqppointed the chair of the organizing comittee for the 2005 LCM Nationals, Voted to come to the USMS Convention as one of the SPMA Delegates, appointed on several comitties in SPMA, appointed a vice chair of the USMS marketingComitte, and I'm on couple of subcomittees of the USMS communications comittee. You know, trying to get involved and make difference in the organization that I'm involved in.
Rather than just posting here and whining about things, like you do.
I sort of kick myself in the rear right now not that I declined to be one of the administrator's 'forum ettiquette' watchers in here.
Well, hope to see you at our pool for the 2005 LCM Nationals. You should stop by and say hello.
