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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Kari I've been in a rather pissy mood most of the week ... I think I'm overly tired ... anyway ... I come here though b/c usually it makes me smile. I decided today that IM sucks ... work sucks ... and all that. Oh well tomorrow is Friday and I have a wedding to go to on Saturday and I can drink for free wahoo!
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Originally posted by LindsayNB
It would be interesting if someone could point out one or more people with top ten times who didn't start swimming until in their thirties.
Do relay top ten's count?
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The reason behind Ion’s posts is not the issue with me. I could care less if he after praise, congratulations, accolades or a forum to showcase his PLAN to achieve the goals he set. Am I impressed? Yes, actually I am impressed that he set a lofty goal then implemented a plan to achieve this goal and then worked the plan! Good job!
What I am not impressed with is his ongoing need to ALWAYS throw the Late Bloomer equation into the mix. I believe that I/we chose swimming as my/our sport. Swimming did not choose me/us. I came to swimming with the God given talent I was blessed to have or not have. I came to swimming with life’s experiences and limitations and positives and negatives and anything else that happened to me, was given to me at birth or developed throughout my life. I never asked for any quarter, nor was I given any quarter. I chose swimming on SWIMMINGS terms, not my terms. Not my set of standards, not my window to look out and view what I perceive are good times are or not so good times.
I also take issue with the fact the he belittles others when they challenge his thinking or accomplishments, yet he continues to hide behind this Late Bloomer nonsense. OK, you are a Late Bloomer, but you cannot change that, there are no categories to swim in USMS called “Late Bloomer”, and the times you swim are relative ONLY to your own thinking and the standard set forth in competition. No more and certainly no less!
I cringe when I read the crutch nonsense about Late Bloomer…..get over it, you chose to COME TO SWIMMING REGARDLESS OF WHEN YOU BEGAN…AND THAT WAS YOUR CHOISE! You are here....deal with it.......ON THE TERMS EVERYONE ELSE EXCEPTS!
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Nice words. Very nice.
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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.
This is literally the exact same thread as last year, the last time Ion showed up. And, just as last year, he has been disproven time and again. Towards the end, he compared his times to women and children when all of his other excuses had been roundly crushed.
Let the thing die, please.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
Last year you even didn't know what's VO2Max and Craig explained to you what it is in endurance.
And, just as last year when you made up medical claims, you revert to the whole V02Max nonsense.
Come back in a year and let's do it again!
I have decided to close this thread for a selfish reason: I don't have time to deal with it. I'm receiving numerous complaints about it that are beginning to interfere with my real job. I am currently at work and do not have enough time to determine who may have crossed the line of decency. Since we have a number of people who can't resist commenting, the thread is now closed. Please do not try to continue this discussion on a different thread.
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Ion, as a scientist you should know you can not generalize to the population from one case. I say again, show me a scientifically designed and controlled study of your process that proves it is the process everyone should go through to become the swimming marvel you are. When you can show us that, others might think about trying it out. Until then, accept the fact that what works for you isn't what has worked for others and leave them alone.
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Gosh Elaine, based on his times I do not think it has worked for HIM!
