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.).
Former Member
Originally posted by dorothyrde
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However, if ALL 10 year olds have this miracle of the heart and all that, than many more would be at Katie Hoffs level. Instead, the ones with the most talent, and cleanest technique...
This is even not true.
Phelps is proven medically to absorb lactic acid better than others.
It's all in his physiology, not technique.
He is swimming butterfly with an unorthodox technique, a technique that is forbidden, he always has the head up.
Former Member
Originally posted by old dog
Here is a sympathetic swimmer. Ion bashes her along w/ many other well meaning students of the sport. In his arrogance,
he takes what fellow swimmers offer as constructive criticism
as personal insult.
Grasping at straws, dog.
Without your arrogance, prove to me that you have a constructive criticism because you are qualified to understand and do better turns than me.
As of now, you are unqualified.
And you offer unqualified advice.
Last year, your unqualified advice was to deem my training and process as not likely to produce a lifetime best.
My lifetime best this year, proves you wrong.
You only focus on negativity.
To display your unqualified advices.
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.
Former Member
Ion....do you think I just parachuted into this Forum? You know ZERO, ZIP, ZILCH regarding how I trained...what I did.....or how I swm the times I have swam....Yet, you state I need your direction...Heck, reading your times...I need anything BUT your direction!
Former Member
Originally posted by Mary
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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.
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I know what you asked.
That's what I have.
I try to remember where I read a scientific study saying that everyone is born with fast twitch, slow twitch and neutral fibers, waiting for conversion to fast and conversion to slow.
There is a time in life when this conversion is possible.
Outside, it's lost, the fibers are not converted.
Former Member
Originally posted by dorothyrde
Actually Ion, if you follow the forum, you would know that Connie's percentage of improvement is quite inspiring. Once again you are pulling very old times.
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It's last year.
Also her this year's 1,000 free is over 15:00.
Former Member
Originally posted by Tom Ellison
...Heck, reading your times...I need anything BUT your direction!
It's up to you.
But how is it that in your mother tongue, you cannot spell well?
Former Member
Originally posted by dorothyrde
Yes I caught that. And actually my turns are better than his were at 2004 Nationals.
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Come on.
You do a 1,000 yards in 30 minutes.
You wrote that.
That's 39 flip turns.
I do 2,400 yards in 30 minutes, more than twice your distance.
That's 95 flip turns.
So many more turns and faster swim that I do in 30 minutes, they mean that I am much more efficient than you in turns.
My turns, almost three times as many in 30 minutes, must be faster, longer and stronger than yours.
When I wrote that my turns are not good, that's not compared to yours or dog's.
You have no modesty in mediocrity.
Fast swimmers who do good turns do not get me in turns when I do my turns.
My turns are not good compared to Joe Thomas' and Rob Bellamy's turns in my club.
Former Member
Lazy I guess....if I take time in my writing I spell fairly well....but interestingly enought in my 30 years in corp. America....in every single fitness report my writting skills were given high marks....I am sincerely sorry that I failed to take the necessary time to check my spelling so you could not find that log in my eye....I will do better next time.....
