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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://community.usms.org/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/general/5234/i-need-help</link><description>I&amp;#39;ve been on a swim team for a month and have been to three swim meets and have come in third place in all of my events. I need help with improving my time and speed. Also, I need help with the flipturn. I also have started training for nationals next</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70513?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:02:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:7a76563a-5161-49b1-b087-5a63a40837a8</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Where&amp;#39;s Mr. Roper?
 
Skip Montanaro
 
*Stud chuckles to himself....*&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70453?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:58:45 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:b7c2451b-cf6e-4e1a-9b04-86a7557ddf6b</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;ve heard that steroids DO age you quickly.........;)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70572?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:21:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:00527927-b8d2-4705-9e7c-4a64e6f5fcd4</guid><dc:creator>FlyQueen</dc:creator><description>I overheard Janet&amp;#39;s phone conversation and it sounded like she was buying steroids to help her arrange her flowers faster ... *gasp* ... this will be a very special episode!!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70428?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:50:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:08f9326b-76d3-44a8-bac9-e979cbf21912</guid><dc:creator>smontanaro</dc:creator><description>... maybe just like Three&amp;#39;s Company this thread is one big misunderstanding?

Where&amp;#39;s Mr. Roper?

Skip Montanaro&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70403?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:38:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:796c164e-cd08-42f0-bad5-c482d7b8a2dd</guid><dc:creator>knelson</dc:creator><description>maybe just like Three&amp;#39;s Company this thread is one big misunderstanding?

I&amp;#39;m heading down to the Regal Beagle for a drink then :)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70378?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:34:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:0f0953ac-288f-4914-a777-6ec9f653ba7e</guid><dc:creator>FlyQueen</dc:creator><description>Even I don&amp;#39;t know what to do with this thread ... I ... maybe just like Three&amp;#39;s Company this thread is one big misunderstanding?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70647?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:54:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:f4d96adc-cbe3-4852-b762-1323c94d4b4c</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>I think taking steroids is much less detrimental to your health than living in sin. 
 
Signed,
 
aquageek
 
much less fun too!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70754?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:04:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:7ef74de3-c4fa-4bc2-85a0-30faf773f7ca</guid><dc:creator>FlyQueen</dc:creator><description>much less fun too!

Oh, I don&amp;#39;t know I enjoy a good roid rage from time to time.  :lmao:&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70740?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 04:03:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:2ab9524b-994d-4cd8-986e-780b64a9d25f</guid><dc:creator>FlyQueen</dc:creator><description>So when did youz guys become the grammar police?  So it should have been y’all instead of yall.  At least she is missing an apostrophe instead of missing a period.

3strokes, just for clarification, on May 2nd swimminggirl was 21 almost 22.  Between May 2nd and July 15th sh had a birthday and she is now 22 (going on 23).

I am blaming what I am about to admit on being tired - I actually went back a few posts looking for a post missing a period (as in the punctuation), then I realized, silly FlyQueen, that&amp;#39;s not what Rob meant.  
:dedhorse:&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70718?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:19:35 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:81cc9be1-bdef-418a-a47b-28af23efd371</guid><dc:creator>Rob Copeland</dc:creator><description>Isn&amp;#39;t it self-evident that anyone who&amp;#39;s 22 is going on 23? :)Tell that to my daughter who is 17 going on 23.:frustrated:&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70626?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:50:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:e5b2806d-7c0f-405c-af8f-34d5978fb215</guid><dc:creator>Muppet</dc:creator><description>At least she is missing an apostrophe instead of missing a period.
 
:doh:way to put it in perspective there, Rob!
 
 
So anyways, swimminggirl, I think we&amp;#39;re all still trying to make sense of everything you&amp;#39;ve written.  You back online yet?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70618?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:31:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:c31fed9a-1c56-4d07-a490-53e9fa624200</guid><dc:creator>aquageek</dc:creator><description>I think taking steroids is much less detrimental to your health than living in sin.  

Signed,

aquageek&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70608?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:23:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:f9a2323c-07ae-4e7d-8696-6151e4481cdc</guid><dc:creator>knelson</dc:creator><description>she is now 22 (going on 23).

Isn&amp;#39;t it self-evident that anyone who&amp;#39;s 22 is going on 23? :)&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70591?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:10:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:cc8ed2d1-5576-466a-af62-d487665e888c</guid><dc:creator>Rob Copeland</dc:creator><description>So when did youz guys become the grammar police?  So it should have been y’all instead of yall.  At least she is missing an apostrophe instead of missing a period.

3strokes, just for clarification, on May 2nd swimminggirl was 21 almost 22.  Between May 2nd and July 15th sh had a birthday and she is now 22 (going on 23).&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70242?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:47:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:8f98f74a-9e4c-459e-a3cc-4f3672c854b3</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>This whole thing is starting to resemble my favorite childhood sandwich...swiss cheese.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70150?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:00:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:2210e0fb-bf5b-41ad-974a-df6f28fe01ba</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Originally Posted by swimminggirl forums.usms.org/.../viewpost.gif 
I&amp;#39;m 21 almost 22

 
 
From the &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m engaged&amp;quot; thread:
 
I&amp;#39;m 22 going on 23. 
 
Odd how she aged up so fast in a few weeks!! :dunno:
 
Alison
 
When anyone cuts their 50 LCM freestyle time by more than half (from 1&amp;#39;:00&amp;quot; to 25&amp;quot;) in so short a time, there&amp;#39;s a toll to pay: it adds a year to your age. Lately when I cut mine by a 1&amp;quot;, I aged a full year.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70099?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:11:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:d34b8284-2c3e-4e55-b3d1-c2ca86dcad92</guid><dc:creator>The Fortress</dc:creator><description>I don&amp;#39;t think anyone was &amp;quot;rude and mean,&amp;quot; given the odd stuff we have read.  I think it&amp;#39;s a good idea to live together before marriage at your young age.  I also think it was a good idea to get off steroids and whatever else you were on and off.  

This is also supposed to be as SR thread.  We ended the topic poll discussions previously.  So we would be happy to read about your swimming progress after you are healthy and drug free again.  

And yall is not a word.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70115?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:35:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:ae8adae5-8ed8-4c40-989e-7d26bc03ec40</guid><dc:creator>swimshark</dc:creator><description>I&amp;#39;m 21 almost 22. Yes, I used to swim competivetly as a child. I have practice tonight. I run 3-4 miles everyday. I will have my coach time me tonight. I will get a copy of the workout also.
Sincerely, Swimminggirl p.s. I need all the advice and help I can get.


From the &amp;quot;I&amp;#39;m engaged&amp;quot; thread:

I&amp;#39;m 22 going on 23. My fiance and I were just talking about the reception and have agreed to have an open bar.  


Odd how she aged up so fast in a few weeks!! :dunno:

Alison&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70308?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 05:14:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:21df5bf8-edb7-439b-a9d1-5538da6f8b34</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>When anyone cuts their 50 LCM freestyle time by more than half (from 1&amp;#39;:00&amp;quot; to 25&amp;quot;) in so short a time, there&amp;#39;s a toll to pay: it adds a year to your age. Lately when I cut mine by a 1&amp;quot;, I aged a full year.

I think I might be willing to pay the price. After all, before I started dyeing my hair and wearing a cap, I got invited (sincerely, even) to join the Silver Streaks club, so what&amp;#39;s another year to this 38 year old who apparently looks over 50? Heck, if I was willing to age up 2 years, I might actually have a competitive time.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/69973?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:03:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:00ea022c-0688-470c-a132-1f6e6f29bcc2</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>I think you should &amp;#39;fess up and come clean (as it were).  Either you have a huge problem with the truth or you are a terrible typist.  I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but your steroid comment really pushed me over the edge.  

You stated on several posts that your 50 Free time was 25 secs flat.  You know this is not true and then your times you posted for the 100 Free and 200 Free are also way off.  I think you said your 200 Free time was 2:38 or so.  

From all of my experience, everyone on this board is helpful and wants to support each other.  It is a little hard to swallow when someone asks if the times you post are correct and you don&amp;#39;t answer, correct yourself or edit the thread.  Then you say you are on steriods without any explanation.  I don&amp;#39;t know anything about performance enhancing drugs, but if your MD prescribes them your fellow swimmers deserve an explanation.  After all, performance enhancing drugs are cheating!&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/70072?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 06:25:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:25cf7aec-0f35-4bfa-a9d7-f31567a33d70</guid><dc:creator>knelson</dc:creator><description>This is quickly becoming one of the strangest threads ever.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/69319?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:23:46 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:ea8f0191-cdc2-40a0-a5ef-5d746bf3568f</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>This is the funniest thread I have seen around here in some time.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/69870?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:45:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:3075693e-d872-48e3-b103-9b9bb4f1b924</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>No yall owe me an apology for saying all the rude things you did. My fiance agrees that you all owe me an apology. I was really upset when I got back and saw how rude and mean that yall had all been towards me. 
Signed, Swimminggirl&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/69759?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:44:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:045bb3cc-3d2a-47f6-8257-b5b3195c32c3</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Glad you are no longer in the hospital.  

As for the apologies, what precisely are we to apologize for?  Being critical of somebody using steroids?&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: I need help!</title><link>https://community.usms.org/thread/69663?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:19:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:37e8f531-0400-400c-833e-a179e9bf48e1</guid><dc:creator>Former Member</dc:creator><description>Sorry yall, I&amp;#39;ve been in the hospital. I&amp;#39;m back now. I quit all my supplements I can&amp;#39;t explain why, its due to something that recently happened. I&amp;#39;m going to go live with my fiance. I really think yall owe me a serious apology. I just read all that yall posted, my fiance agrees that yall owe me a very serious apology.
Signed, Swimminggirl&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>