I'm sure each of us has one race (or maybe more) that has some special :groovy: :applaud: :wave: :banana: :laugh2:
meaning to us and it could be for any one of many reasons. (I'm not talking about embarrassing moments; this has been addressed elsewhere.)
I'm talking about swims/races, some moments of which live with incredible clarity and details in our memories and minds (in colour -or B&W, with sounds and possibly smells -chlorine, of course.)
I won't tell about mine (I have three about which I'm very proud) for a while. Not until regulars have told their stories and some would-be-posters (a.k.a. lurkers) have also shared.
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meldyck;83599
..............I declared to anyone who would listen that I wanted to win a national championship when I turned 60.
Five years later, just two weeks before I turned 65 by FINA rules, I was under the national record in the 200 SCM breaststroke. So, I resolved this time to put all my effort into trying for that record. At Canadian Nationals last year I had my big chance. Alas, I wasn't even close - probably 10 seconds away.
This is the ironical aspect of Masters swimming:
You can only be one age once (one age group five times). If one doesn't accomplish a goal
in one's last year in an age group, one will never be 60-64 again
(or whatever to whatever+4).
The compensation is that the following year, one will then be the
youngest (relatively) in the next age group and theoretically a fresh, younger whippersnapper who -theoretically- should beat the "older" geezers. (Unless some of these geezers happen to be of Geochuck or Ian Smith calibers, in which case one -i.e., me- is "toast").:(
meldyck;83599
..............I declared to anyone who would listen that I wanted to win a national championship when I turned 60.
Five years later, just two weeks before I turned 65 by FINA rules, I was under the national record in the 200 SCM breaststroke. So, I resolved this time to put all my effort into trying for that record. At Canadian Nationals last year I had my big chance. Alas, I wasn't even close - probably 10 seconds away.
This is the ironical aspect of Masters swimming:
You can only be one age once (one age group five times). If one doesn't accomplish a goal
in one's last year in an age group, one will never be 60-64 again
(or whatever to whatever+4).
The compensation is that the following year, one will then be the
youngest (relatively) in the next age group and theoretically a fresh, younger whippersnapper who -theoretically- should beat the "older" geezers. (Unless some of these geezers happen to be of Geochuck or Ian Smith calibers, in which case one -i.e., me- is "toast").:(
