Events at World Championships

originally posted by Jeff How about racing this Longhorn? I'll even go out of my normal swimming range and challenge you to a 200 fly. No 200 ***! I accept. BTW, I think it is very honorable of you Jeff to uphold the honor of Longhorn Masters swimmers everywhere and accept my 200 fly challenge (especially since you say it is not one of your normal events). I must say that I do swim the 200 fly as a normal event (and in fact, I consider it to be one of my stronger events).....But only one of "MY" stronger events.....In the larger spectrum, I'm barely decent at it.......It was the only event in which I placed in the top 10 at last years SCY nationals....and I only placed 10th with a mediocre 2:06 something......So maybe it is a fair challenge then? I'm not sure when and where we can have this challenge.....but I'm sure we can come up with something? BTW, my original challenge was intended for the Evil/GoodSmith.....Not Paul Smith (I know it gets confusing sometimes about which Smith were referring too!).....I made the challenge to John originally for 3 reasons.....First and foremost....John has openly rediculed the 200 fly as unimportant.....Secondly: John is a Longhorn (enough said!) ....Thirdly (and finally): John does have the national record in the 50 SCY fly for 40-44 year olds.....So clearly John can swim butterfly very fast for short distances.....Hence it must be a fair challenge then for this mediocre swimmer from a mid major school to challenge him in any butterfly race that is swam competitively at USMS meets right??....(i.e. it's not like I challenged him to a 1650 butterfly or something!)......I don't mind being the underdog either....as long as I think I have "some" fighting chance I will challenge any Longhorn anywhere anytime.....(but I did say "some fighting chance"....so no 200 or 400 IM challenge for the Raz, .....or any kind of 50, or 100 challenge for John....Certainly no backstroke challenges for Clay Britt...etc....I think you get the idea....so whatever your best at Jeff.....forget challenging me in that....it's got to be "somewhat" fair...and then I'm in! Newmastersswimmer

originally posted by Jeff How about racing this Longhorn? I'll even go out of my normal swimming range and challenge you to a 200 fly. No 200 ***! I accept. BTW, I think it is very honorable of you Jeff to uphold the honor of Longhorn Masters swimmers everywhere and accept my 200 fly challenge (especially since you say it is not one of your normal events). I must say that I do swim the 200 fly as a normal event (and in fact, I consider it to be one of my stronger events).....But only one of "MY" stronger events.....In the larger spectrum, I'm barely decent at it.......It was the only event in which I placed in the top 10 at last years SCY nationals....and I only placed 10th with a mediocre 2:06 something......So maybe it is a fair challenge then? I'm not sure when and where we can have this challenge.....but I'm sure we can come up with something? BTW, my original challenge was intended for the Evil/GoodSmith.....Not Paul Smith (I know it gets confusing sometimes about which Smith were referring too!).....I made the challenge to John originally for 3 reasons.....First and foremost....John has openly rediculed the 200 fly as unimportant.....Secondly: John is a Longhorn (enough said!) ....Thirdly (and finally): John does have the national record in the 50 SCY fly for 40-44 year olds.....So clearly John can swim butterfly very fast for short distances.....Hence it must be a fair challenge then for this mediocre swimmer from a mid major school to challenge him in any butterfly race that is swam competitively at USMS meets right??....(i.e. it's not like I challenged him to a 1650 butterfly or something!)......I don't mind being the underdog either....as long as I think I have "some" fighting chance I will challenge any Longhorn anywhere anytime.....(but I did say "some fighting chance"....so no 200 or 400 IM challenge for the Raz, .....or any kind of 50, or 100 challenge for John....Certainly no backstroke challenges for Clay Britt...etc....I think you get the idea....so whatever your best at Jeff.....forget challenging me in that....it's got to be "somewhat" fair...and then I'm in! Newmastersswimmer