How much endurance training?

I think Allen probably understood that I wasn't protesting his characterization but using it as an occasion to point up a useful distinction...if only to me and no one else. A revolutionary can simply be a bomb-thrower. It can also be someone who helps bring about positive change. I grasped that Allen meant more the latter than the former. But I also hoped to clarify that my object is not simply to bring about change for change's sake -- which is not unimportant, considering how often my posts are perceived as attacks on prevailing practice. In saying that my intent is more accurately to "rationalize" swimming I was saying that I try to provide a rational basis upon which any swimmer can base any decision or answer any question. Is that revolutionary? Depends on your point of view. My experience over 40 years of swimming, coaching and observing is that, while there have always been many good information sources, a good deal of the decision-making that goes on every day by millions of people in thousands of pools is heavily based on "folklore," custom, or imitating what others do. If I can seem humor-deprived, guilty as charged I suppose. I'm thought to have a decent sense of humor in "real life." But I don't write about swimming for self-amusement or as a hobby. It's my profession, even my "calling." Is it a fair assumption that you might post differently on a legal forum than you do here? Just because it's a Masters forum doesn't suggest to me that my approach should be any less serious. I and a good number of the people I swim with several evenings a week are far more purposeful and examined in our approach than the age groupers Dave and I also coach. So when the point of a thread gets muddled by unproductive semantical scraps I feel like its informational potential has been hurt. MASTERS implies fun ... If every single stroke I took was mindful and I was always building my engine and swimming neurally I'd go nuts. I swim now because well I am VERY competitive by nature I also love the team atmosphere and want to have fun swimming ... Leave the serious stuff for the elite USS swimmers ... RELAX a bit ... have fun, you'll find you have much more fun here if you don't take yourself so darn seriously!

I think Allen probably understood that I wasn't protesting his characterization but using it as an occasion to point up a useful distinction...if only to me and no one else. A revolutionary can simply be a bomb-thrower. It can also be someone who helps bring about positive change. I grasped that Allen meant more the latter than the former. But I also hoped to clarify that my object is not simply to bring about change for change's sake -- which is not unimportant, considering how often my posts are perceived as attacks on prevailing practice. In saying that my intent is more accurately to "rationalize" swimming I was saying that I try to provide a rational basis upon which any swimmer can base any decision or answer any question. Is that revolutionary? Depends on your point of view. My experience over 40 years of swimming, coaching and observing is that, while there have always been many good information sources, a good deal of the decision-making that goes on every day by millions of people in thousands of pools is heavily based on "folklore," custom, or imitating what others do. If I can seem humor-deprived, guilty as charged I suppose. I'm thought to have a decent sense of humor in "real life." But I don't write about swimming for self-amusement or as a hobby. It's my profession, even my "calling." Is it a fair assumption that you might post differently on a legal forum than you do here? Just because it's a Masters forum doesn't suggest to me that my approach should be any less serious. I and a good number of the people I swim with several evenings a week are far more purposeful and examined in our approach than the age groupers Dave and I also coach. So when the point of a thread gets muddled by unproductive semantical scraps I feel like its informational potential has been hurt. MASTERS implies fun ... If every single stroke I took was mindful and I was always building my engine and swimming neurally I'd go nuts. I swim now because well I am VERY competitive by nature I also love the team atmosphere and want to have fun swimming ... Leave the serious stuff for the elite USS swimmers ... RELAX a bit ... have fun, you'll find you have much more fun here if you don't take yourself so darn seriously!