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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 I was five years old. I thought it was 9:00 a.m.. But it was 9:02 a.m.. I will never forgive myself. Okay, this is funny. If you do have a sense of humor, then maybe all of this baiting, jabbing, ducking, etc is part of it. That makes all of us the fools . . . Maybe, then again maybe not. . . :D
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    Awh, I miss the As the World Turns thread ... perhaps I'll resurect that one with some new ideas today ... it's Friday, who works on Fridays? I love the slogan!
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    Ion, I’d bet dollars to donuts that your most effective means of birth control is your personality!
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    Originally posted by Tom Ellison If you are so smart....What does a Shoe Brush and a Piano both have in common....? Neither one can climb a tree! Maybe it's the language barrier with Ion? Well, now waidaminudde, it's not hindering me! I know what it is, he's a late humor-bloomer. Sorry folks!
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    Originally posted by Tom Ellison Ion, I’d bet dollars to donuts that your most effective means of birth control is your personality! Naaah, He's Mr. Right!
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    hahah ... see Connie, you rule!
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    Originally posted by Ion Beza Late 40's, Connie? The plural of 40 is 40s, not 40's. Like the plural of car is cars, not car's. Also, I didn't know that 46 is late 40s. It sounds mid 40s to me. You need to brush up numbers. But I know that you are 35, and you call yourself girl. Sorry folks, gotta do this. The post I saw said, the plural of car id cars. Glass houses, Ion.
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    Originally posted by Ion Beza Yeah. I was five years old. I thought it was 9:00 a.m.. But it was 9:02 a.m.. I will never forgive myself. Yeah, but, you couldn't see the seconds, maybe it was 9:02:13, and you'll never know for sure. Life is full of uncrtainties. How do you cope? Cut off the number of significant digits? Round up, round down, truncate, approximate, take repeat measurements, least square it? How do you deal with the fast that 9:02 is just an asymptote to that specific moment in time, that can never really be pinpointed? How do you cope?
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    What light? Bump......
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    Originally posted by Conniekat8 Maybe it's the language barrier with Ion? ... Language barrier, 35-year old girl?