I am moving somewhere where I won't be able to swim much for two years. Anyway, I made it my goal to swim 15,000 meters straight in four hours. I was only able to swim 14,000 meters, but it was a great experience. I actually had time to finish another thousand, but my body died on me. I should also say that I have not been training like I usually do, so this was a lot of swimming. It was a great accomplishment and I can now go without swimming for awhile. My question is, what is the most you have ever done in a workout or in a day and what has it meant to you?
In my case, this was the most I had ever done in a workout. Most in a day was 25,000 that was stretched over the entire day. The meaning of my 14,000 meters was that I was able to have the mental and physical ability to handle doing this many meters by myself.
Tom:
I agree with Peter Cruise, Rob Copeland, and Tracy Burkholder that you do provide an inspiration to all of us. By the way you are not a troll that preaches the tooting of a mediorce horn with missing swimming knowledge and uncouthness. And you don't misinform posters with words like Gosh, Amen, God, Mr Moose, Ralph, and VO2 Max Shampoo. You have a great humor and you provide rational thinking regardless if you get 1 star out of 10 over at USA.
I commend you for you stances and not getting sucked in to all of the phases of sick Crocker and healthy Hall. That stuff reminds me of the Matthew Bond material that appeared here 2 years ago. Just just remember on here you don't bluff, preach, and troll but provide interesting discussion and we don't have to worry about any threads getting locked out.
Holy smoke- reading Frank's comments and Tom's reply caused me to revisit a certain closed thread which I had dropped after 5 pages...Oh Tom! Way to wield the lumber! Most of my hot tea ended up dripping from the computer screen...we all are very fond of your usual humour & conciliatory posts, but it was good to see that you have wicked left hook as well...
Peter....thank you very much for your post....I LOL to the max! On the floor LOL....
Under most circumtances, I do not like to fight, or toss my demented, bent, sick, deluded sense of humor into the trash, but every now an again, when stuck in a corner, or when someone slams people I highly respect, I can take the gloves off. After reading the first post over there....the gloves came off.
All kidding aside, and being serious here.....I believe in greatness! And when I see greatness in people like Eddie Reese....who is an Icon in our sport being slammed, maligned and dealt with in such a blatant, disrespectful manner by someone who has no clue what it takes to make decisions on that level in swimming, well, I have trouble keeping my mouth shut or the gloves on. Eddie Reese does not know me from Adam. But, I met him twice while in Texas, and both times I found him to be a class act. I know two very good swimmers that know the man well, and both say he is decent and as bright as they get. I'll stand up for that any day even if I take a few shots from the tin horn.
Thank you Skip:
I just couldn't sit on the side lines while he bashed Coach Reese and then the entire USMS Forum.....esp with the data he yanks out of who knows where.
I admit to having a somewhat off the wall sense of humor and for the most part I try to use it....
Again, thank you.....
The side effect is that he may still look like a prune to this day. As a master swimmer I swam 11K one day. Not sure I will ever do that again. Took a couple days to recover and not sure of much benefit.
