Since I am in the Dixie Zone, I was perusing the results of meets this weekend and saw that Dara Torres, who turned 40 on Sunday, went 21.91 in the 50 free and 48.34 in the 100 free this weekend in St. Petersburg this past weekend. I guess that she is serious about this comeback. It will be interesting to see how she can do long course.
Since I was at Y Nationals, I looked up results to see how she would have done against the men. There was one 31 yo who was faster in both the 50 and 100 and a 45 yo who was faster in the 100 by a small amount. Pretty incredible.
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I talked to Dara during the 2004 Olympic trials. She has always been one of the most beautiful women swimmers of all time.
But she made it clear to me that although she does weights, her stretching program is what makes her fast. I still have the card from her stretching guru somewhere, he was going to write a book.
Stretching has really come forwards to complement weight training.
I talked to Dara during the 2004 Olympic trials. She has always been one of the most beautiful women swimmers of all time.
But she made it clear to me that although she does weights, her stretching program is what makes her fast. I still have the card from her stretching guru somewhere, he was going to write a book.
Stretching has really come forwards to complement weight training.
