I have just recently decided to become dually affiliated with both the USS and USMS (i.e. I am now registered with both organizations). I did this primarily so that I could swim for our local agegroup team at meets in the 17 and over age group. The main advantage for me will be that I can now attend a much larger number of swimming events per season while not having to travel nearly as far to attend swim meets. Since most of the USS meets I will be attending are going to be in Memphis, I can now travel home after each day and return the next day without having to spend the night in a hotel....Also I will be burning a lot less gas getting to the nearby USS meets than I would traveling to USMS meets (even the ones that are the closest to where I live). If you have the same kind of situation in regards to traveling long distances to attend USMS meets and spending too much on traveling expenses, then perhaps you can benefit also from attending USS meets as well?? Also I don't think you necessarily have to be dually affiliated to attend these USS meets?.....(but I'm not really sure how that works to be honest).....I noticed that several other USMS swimmers have attended USS meets before. My first USS meet will be on October 15 and 16. I know I will probably get smoked by a lot of young fast swimmers....but I am still looking forward to the experience none-the-less. If anyone else has ever swam at a USS meet before while also registered as a masters swimmer with the USMS, please share your experience with me/us....How many of y'all are also dually affiliated?
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. I intended on posting a poll for this thread as well to see how many other USMS swimmers have ever attended a USS sanctioned meet....but I'm not sure if I submitted it correctly...so the poll may not actually accompany this posting??
only it's more like 7,500 meters a day now b/c I stopped the 2 a days....10,000 + meters a day was starting to tear my body down a little too much
I'd been meaning to ask you about how your body has held up, then I saw you had a blog and figured I'd find the answer there, then I saw someone said you hadn't updated your blog for a while so I didn't go there, etc. etc. etc. At 44 and back into swimming for just under a year, my body is occasionally letting me know that it has had enough at nowhere near the yardage you're doing.
I can't remember exactly how old you are, but I consider myself an old dude, and my wife thinks I'm crazy for getting in the water at 6 am. I think your quest is cool, whether quixotic or not.
No bet involving beer is crazy in my world. If you win, you get beer. If you lose, you need to buy beer for the winner anyway, so you might as well pick up a little for yourself to ease the pain. Everyone's a winner in the ensuing beerfest.
If you are ever out this way, I bet you can get me to buy you a beer or seven by introducing yourself as the crazy old dude on the quixotic quest.
I guessed, conservatively, I thought, at my seed times for my first meet this weekend. Along with several other events, I signed up for the 200 ***. After I told a teammate, and she said "The 200???!!!" with a look that told me she thinks I'm certifiable, I thought I'd do one in practice just to verify that my incredfibly conservative guessed time was accurate. Without getting into the humiliating details of actual time vs. seed time, let's just say that I now will consider completing that event a personal victory. I considered swimming sidestroke for at least the first 100, but read the rule and realized that I will be DQ'd. So I'll hum a mantra of "Go slow, breathe, go slow, breathe . . . " and hope to hold off the piano until the last 25 or so. My only hope is that the people in charge looked at my seed times, my checked "first meet" box, and my scrawled message about my times being guesses, and, laughing uncontrollably, seeded me where I belong.
I plan on treating my ego to as many cold ones as it needs to recover after the meet.
only it's more like 7,500 meters a day now b/c I stopped the 2 a days....10,000 + meters a day was starting to tear my body down a little too much
I'd been meaning to ask you about how your body has held up, then I saw you had a blog and figured I'd find the answer there, then I saw someone said you hadn't updated your blog for a while so I didn't go there, etc. etc. etc. At 44 and back into swimming for just under a year, my body is occasionally letting me know that it has had enough at nowhere near the yardage you're doing.
I can't remember exactly how old you are, but I consider myself an old dude, and my wife thinks I'm crazy for getting in the water at 6 am. I think your quest is cool, whether quixotic or not.
No bet involving beer is crazy in my world. If you win, you get beer. If you lose, you need to buy beer for the winner anyway, so you might as well pick up a little for yourself to ease the pain. Everyone's a winner in the ensuing beerfest.
If you are ever out this way, I bet you can get me to buy you a beer or seven by introducing yourself as the crazy old dude on the quixotic quest.
I guessed, conservatively, I thought, at my seed times for my first meet this weekend. Along with several other events, I signed up for the 200 ***. After I told a teammate, and she said "The 200???!!!" with a look that told me she thinks I'm certifiable, I thought I'd do one in practice just to verify that my incredfibly conservative guessed time was accurate. Without getting into the humiliating details of actual time vs. seed time, let's just say that I now will consider completing that event a personal victory. I considered swimming sidestroke for at least the first 100, but read the rule and realized that I will be DQ'd. So I'll hum a mantra of "Go slow, breathe, go slow, breathe . . . " and hope to hold off the piano until the last 25 or so. My only hope is that the people in charge looked at my seed times, my checked "first meet" box, and my scrawled message about my times being guesses, and, laughing uncontrollably, seeded me where I belong.
I plan on treating my ego to as many cold ones as it needs to recover after the meet.
