It was my first pentathlon. You know, maybe it's me, but it's astonishing how tired you get by the time you have to do the IM. Saw a lot of fast swimmers and even though I made a personal best in the 50 free, 26.65, I got spanked by the super heroes in my 45-49 age group.
Anyway, I was DQed on the IM for doing the flip backstroke turn. My bad, though I had no idea it wasn't allowed. It's legal for backstroke why not the IM, does anybody know the reasoning?
tony
Former Member
Originally posted by craiglll@yahoo.com
I really think that our age group is one of the hardest in masters.
Yeah, really, and how about that Paul Carter fellow and his 100 fly? What's up with that? His SCY time is something like 51-and-change. The guy is indeed a god!
I think the 70's was the perfect storm for individual sports. We had Mark Spitz, Brian Goodell, John Naber, Bruce Jenner, the founding of the Ironman Triathlon in the late 70's, Martina, John McEnroe and many others not to mention the marathoners and track athletes.
Nonetheless, swimming is the best.
Originally posted by Glenn
Tony,
I don't believe the Caltech website is active.
You guys did great. I can't wait to do it again. This time I won't do a deck entry. Looking forward to the results in the next couple of weeks. :-)
To: Its a slow show,
If you are referring to Bob Strand who just aged up to 60, yes, he did it all!!!
He is a breastroker and broke the National record going 30.18. The fastest 55-59 50 brst time was 32.00 (John Derr who is no slouch himself) and the 50 - 54 fastest 50 brst time was 32.33.
Bob also broke the National record in the 100IM going 1:01.46. Rich Abrahams set the record last year at 1:01.50.
The fastest 100IM time in the 55-59 was 1:04.19 and the fastest time in 50 - 54 was 1:04.42.
Bob's cumulative time was 2:55.52. The 55-59 winner was 3:00.66 and 50-54 was 3:03.15.
I swim with Bob at Rose Bowl once per week and he is a great guy and of course a terrific swimmer.
:)
Tony,
I don't believe the Caltech website is active. Suzy Dodd is pretty good at getting the meet info out as quickly as she can. Be patient and keep checking the SPMA meet results.
Thanks for attending the meet!!
Glenn Gruber
Originally posted by SCAQ Member
It was my first pentathlon. You know, maybe it's me, but it's astonishing how tired you get by the time you have to do the IM. Saw a lot of fast swimmers and even though I made a personal best in the 50 free, 26.65, I got spanked by the super heroes in my 45-49 age group.
Anyway, I was DQed on the IM for doing the flip backstroke turn. My bad, though I had no idea it wasn't allowed. It's legal for backstroke why not the IM, does anybody know the reasoning?
tony
I really think that our age group is one of the hardest in masters. It's becasue we all got so excited abut Mark Spitz. There are also so many of us who've swam almost always. I wonder if the current buzz over Michael Phelps will have the same long-lasting effect on swimmign and his generation and the swimmers slightly younger than him?
Originally posted by Glenn
... The results will be posted in a week or two at http://www.spma.net Go to meet results and find Caltech Pentathlon. You could actually find the results of 1997 - 2005 at that site as well right now.
:)
You guys did a great job. If possible could the results be posted sooner at the Cal Tech Masters website? Even if it's a download that would be okay.
tony
