Today at our Masters practice I mentioned that Dennis Baker, who recently aged up into my age group, trains 10K/day. A teammate of mine, a 31 year old woman, remarked, "That's a lot of yardage for someone your age."
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Originally posted by gull80
...and then today, by some strange coincidence, I receive in the mail a personalized invitation to join AARP (seriously), even though I'm "only" 48.
Craig, retired only means retired, not old. Maybe they thought you would retire soon and swim USMS full time. Maybe even do some offsite training for Terry Laughlin.
I was swimming by myself during the kids practice in an unoccupied lane. While attempting to keep up with the coaches practice for the 13 year old kids I noticed they were talking about an old guy in the pool. Apparently this fellow was doing fairly well that day as he was making most of the intervals. In addition this fellow probably needed to slow down before he had a heart attack.
I must have looked for that old guy for 30 minutes before a light went off as to who they were talking about. In addition to being old I obviously have a cognitive problem and bad vision.
Have a great day
Paul
The age group team at our YMCA is called the Riptide. Someone wrote "Ebbtide" next to the word "Masters" on a poster near the pool.
At least he didn't write "Slack tide"--Ebbtide implies movement, even if it's backwards.
At practice one morning, a lady swimming a few lanes over looked at me and said "I remember when I gave you a set similar to this one in high school"
...and the proper reply would have been...."Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?"
