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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you forgot to say, design and implement real scientific experiements that result in real scientific results (hard data) before claiming to have such.
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Ion, your bashing of Old Dog's input is a perfect example of your lofty and near sighted view of others input and their ability to give quality input. I know Old Dog....and I also know he did not start swimming until late in High School....and I have swam with him....and his turns a very good.....and his times are faster then yours...and he is an age group older then you.....Be careful what you post without the facts....
Quote Ion:
"this is saying that you don't want to know the conditions under which an action is performed."
Many things I need in this world Ion, but directions from you with respect to swimming is not one of them and, I am one of the fortunate men who actually asks for directions.....but I am not going to ask Stevie Wonder to teach me how to drive my car or you to guide me in my swimming.....Please read my post yesterday regarding the Late Bloomer nonsense....YES, you are 100% correct....I do not care to hear about the conditions under which your action is performed IF you keep harping on being a late bloomer...and because of that your times are not as fast as the BLESSED who began swimming at a young age....USMS does not have astrics for Late Bloomer times....
Lastly, if Frogs had wings...then wouldn't bump their behinds when they walked.....
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To:
Originally posted by Mary
Okay, since you have still not directly answered my question. I thought I would look up your authority. I just looked Mark Schubert up...
and to bug.
From an article published at:
www.baltimoresun.com/.../...sports-olympics .
"With training,..." Bowman said, "...prepubescent children can significantly impact their heart and lung size, more substantially than they can after puberty. The larger the heart and lungs, the bigger the engine."
That's how Dorothy's 10 year old trains.
That's how Katie Hoff trains.
And so on.
Mary, they don't tell you everything over there, in endocrinology?
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Originally posted by dorothyrde
Where is technique in your list, I see the crosstraining, I see putting swimming and the training for it first in your life above all else. Where do you say you work on technique. I did READ!
Pay attention before labeling yardage like a deaf and blind, will you?
Page 4.
Points d.) and f.) in my post about the process.
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Originally posted by Ion Beza
To:
and to bug.
From an article published at:
www.baltimoresun.com/.../...sports-olympics .
"With training,..." Bowman said, "...prepubescent children can significantly impact their heart and lung size, more substantially than they can after puberty. The larger the heart and lungs, the bigger the engine."
That's how Dorothy's 10 year old trains.
That's how Katie Hoff trains.
And so on.
Mary, they don't tell you everything over there, in endocrinology?
I wasn't referring to this part of the thread. I was referring to your own 'experiment with an n of 1'
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Dinner time (lunch to everyone else) here in the sunny southeast.
I have a suggestion. Lets call it quits on this thread.
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Originally posted by Scansy
Hey guys, I'm back. My attitude right now is tired. Deadline tomorrow morning.... lots of work to do. :(
Tomorrow evening, my attitude will likely be tipsy.... a few beers after a hell week. :D
This weekend it will be laid back. Lot's of yard work - flowers and veggies to plant. Should be relaxing. :)
Just wanted to check in with my attitude.
Oh, and no, I don't swim as fast as most of you. I do love it though. My process is pretty much haphazard. No coach. No consistent workout times. I decide what stroke to work on that day on my way into the Y. I wear myself out and feel good about it.
I always look forward to your postings :)
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I have a suggestion ... how about we retitle this thread ramblings of a madman and leave it alone? ;)
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Originally posted by Tom Ellison
Ion, your bashing of Old Dog's input is a perfect example of your lofty and near sighted view of others input and their ability to give quality input. I know Old Dog....and I also know he did not start swimming until late in High School...
Ah, but you see I don't know old dog like you do, but he lied.
Last year he wrote that he is a late starter in life like me (not an early starter in high school which is the truth according to you, but a late starter in life like me) yet he achieved a lifetime best on technique when in his 50s.
What else is he lying about?
I stress that last year he was bashing my training, yet I got a lifetime best now on my training.
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Originally posted by Ion Beza
You speak like if you ever achieved charm and consistency.
Actually, eat your heart out, I have.
I've already been at the olympic level in another sport, and I'm a lot more accomplished in business and personal life than you are.
If you want to come up with an effective putdown, you'll have to come up with something that actually applies, rather than shooting off loose cannon style made up remarks.
