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Worlds at Stanfofd - It's not how fast you go but how good you look

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I may be growing old, thin and feeble, but it seemed to me that there were a HELL of a lot of really big beefy middle aged dudes swimming at the meet at Stanford. I was sitting in the clerk of course for the 50 and 100 free thinking I weigh about 20-40 lbs less than most of these guys. I'm tellin' yah some of these guys chests were HUGE with big guns to match! I felt like a friggen squirrel in a Rotweiller cage. Saeger and I were glad it wasn't tag team wrestling. We'd of had our arms and legs ripped off. I'm thinking my standard formula of vitamins, protein powder and motrin may be out of date. After all, the cardinal rule of Masters Swimming.................. It's not how fast you go....... It's how good you look..... :-) John Smith
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    I have really enjoyed reading about the meet this past week and all the fun times, but this picture may need to be a screen saver, for motivation purposes solely. All my coworkers (female) want to take up swimming now. Congrats to everyone and their swims!
  • Originally posted by kokkole This year in Italy masters swimmers were tested by the Public Health Department (as opposed to sports authorities) at several meets. We think the idea was to find any traffic of illegal substances. The only offenses found were for precription and/or otc drugs. The list of prohibited substances is on the World Anti Doping Agency website: WADA My favorite is actifed. I love the stuff! :rolleyes: A couple of interesting items from the list. Alcohol is not prohibited from swimming competition - if it were we probably wouldn't have a Masters Swimming :) Strychnine - is that because people try to kill their opponent It seems that Powerboating Alcohol limits are higher than Billiards - must be the bar fights. All Beta Blockers, except Blue Blockers ;) Does anyone know what normal medications would be considered illegal, ie is Flonase, Aleve, Sinus medicine, what otc supplements may have banned components?
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    Originally posted by TheGoodSmith There's no testing in masters swimming. This year in Italy masters swimmers were tested by the Public Health Department (as opposed to sports authorities) at several meets. We think the idea was to find any traffic of illegal substances. The only offenses found were for precription and/or otc drugs. The list of prohibited substances is on the World Anti Doping Agency website: WADA My favorite is actifed. I love the stuff! :rolleyes:
  • Originally posted by TheGoodSmith FYI...... there will be no PR photos of Team TYR published with our small chests, soft underbellies and scrawny arms exposed. We admit defeat on the machismo front. John Smith Speak for yourself, Mr. Smith. We might have lost to you in the medley relay, but we've got you in the physique department. And this'll be the only published photo in the world of me wearing anything but a brief. Savor it, Paul Smith!
  • For those of us who don't know, who are the people in the photo?
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    That's the 120 Team TYR medley relay champions. They are but youngsters and have yet to ripen on the Master swimming vine. Give them another 10 years and they may be able to match the manly dosages of Motrin that Paul and I tolerate. John Smith
  • Left to right: Mike Ruffner (***) Matt Eisenhuth (free) Brad Hibbard (fly) Jeff Commings (back) Event 28 Men 120-159 200 LC Meter Medley - Belardi Pool Relay ================================================================== WORLD: W 1:47.09 7/10/2005 DDS MILANO -ITA G TIANO, A AGOSTINONE, F MARCHESI, M SAVINO Meet: M 1:48.75 1992 RED FISH -SUI P FERLAND, E DAGON, T DAVID, S VOLERY Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 TYR 'A-USA' 1:49.30 1:48.58M 1) Commings, Jeff M32 2) Ruffner, Michael J M41 3) Hibbard, Brad A M37 4) Eisenhuth, Matthew S M32 28.17 59.21 (31.04) 1:24.45 (25.24) 1:48.58 (24.13) And John is correct......these youngsters have a LONG way to go to match our flab, aches/pains and times! By the way.....I do recall a bit of a beer wager on this relay Mr. Commings! Event 28 Men 160-199 200 LC Meter Medley - Belardi Pool Relay ================================================================== WORLD: W 1:50.24 8/20/2005 GENEVE NAT -SUI C NORREY, P WARGA, P MEYER, N GOLDSWORTHY Meet: M 1:53.79 1992 BAYLOR/LONE S -USA M NASH, B HAMILTON, T CLAY HEDRICK, D HAGUE Team Seed Finals ================================================================== 1 TYR 'C-USA' 1:49.45 1:47.72W 1) Saeger, Rich E M42 2) Rhodenbaugh, Greg S M44 3) Smith, Paul L M47 4) Smith, John C M44 28.53 58.75 (30.22) 1:23.99 (25.24) 1:47.72 (23.73)
  • I can't speak for my teammates, but I outsplit my counterpart. And you tied Brad. So .... Rich owes me something.
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    FYI...... there will be no PR photos of Team TYR published with our small chests, soft underbellies and scrawny arms exposed. We admit defeat on the machismo front. originally posted by John Smith I know I stole this video from Vallhalen which he posted in another thread.....but since they said the swimmer in lane 6 was unknown, I thought maybe it could be our own John Smith?? Can anyone confirm this (Tall Paul?) www.metacafe.com/.../ Newmastersswimmer
  • Dang! What a TALL team. Two of you are even taller than John. (I knew Paul's nickname was "Tall Paul".) No fair.