Dara just one the national title in the 100M Freestyle in 54.4 at the ripe old age of 40. Simply Incredible. :applaud: :woot:
If that's not inspiring I don't know what is.
what is this 2 second drop people are talking about
she went 25.9 at masters worlds in 2006 then
she got down to 24.5
that's 1.3 or 1.4 from one year to the next
wasn't her prior lifetime best 24.7 then she went 24.5
so it's really a 0.2 - 0.3 improvement on her lifetime best time
Skepticism is a natural reaction, one that DT herself anticipated.
Based on your description (OT qualifier, etc), you and I probably swam at similar levels in HS/College. I've kept fit and do not think it possible to come anywhere near to my college times in an event like the 200 fly. But if I quit my job and did nothing else, given modern theories of training and technical suits, I could see matching my college speed in the 50 fly and maybe coming close in the 100. (Heck, adding 1-2 hours more sleep every night would go a long way...!)
I dropped 1 second in 50 LCM back between Masters Worlds and a year later, with no change in fitness, only a fairly drastic change in training. (I don't consider myself a sprinter, but my time at Worlds was good enough for 2nd.) Given that DT had recently given birth and was ***-feeding at the time, and then, as I understand it, essentially switched to being a full-time athlete...it certainly seems more than possible to drop 2 seconds in a 50 without adding doping to the equation. And I'm a firm believer in Occam's razor.
what is this 2 second drop people are talking about
she went 25.9 at masters worlds in 2006 then
she got down to 24.5
that's 1.3 or 1.4 from one year to the next
wasn't her prior lifetime best 24.7 then she went 24.5
so it's really a 0.2 - 0.3 improvement on her lifetime best time
Skepticism is a natural reaction, one that DT herself anticipated.
Based on your description (OT qualifier, etc), you and I probably swam at similar levels in HS/College. I've kept fit and do not think it possible to come anywhere near to my college times in an event like the 200 fly. But if I quit my job and did nothing else, given modern theories of training and technical suits, I could see matching my college speed in the 50 fly and maybe coming close in the 100. (Heck, adding 1-2 hours more sleep every night would go a long way...!)
I dropped 1 second in 50 LCM back between Masters Worlds and a year later, with no change in fitness, only a fairly drastic change in training. (I don't consider myself a sprinter, but my time at Worlds was good enough for 2nd.) Given that DT had recently given birth and was ***-feeding at the time, and then, as I understand it, essentially switched to being a full-time athlete...it certainly seems more than possible to drop 2 seconds in a 50 without adding doping to the equation. And I'm a firm believer in Occam's razor.
