I was just wondering if anyone out there knows of masters swimmers who don’t compete and that have achieved Top Ten Times, American Records, World Records, etc. in practice. I know that stories have circulated around about swimmers like Mark Spitz who have done this (although I think he did compete :)). I was just wondering if there are similar stories in the masters ranks. It seems to me that it would be highly probable in masters swimming because so many of its members do not actually swim at meets. Therefore, I would think there are people out there who achieve these (unofficial) times during a practice session and are relatively unknown. If you’ve got a story to share, please do.
This is interesting. I wonder what the Top Ten would look like if everyone competed.
It would look very different. That is why we cannot get too full of ourselves. Nobody on this forum can say "I'm a fast swimmer" without adding the caveat, "for an old guy/girl."
I was happy with a 3rd place at World's a few years ago knowing there are probably 20 people my age in the Bay area alone that could beat me like a bad monkey in the 200 Back if they had any motivation to find one of their skanky old suits, battle California traffic, and drag their sorry, bloated a** down to Stanford.:bighug:
This is interesting. I wonder what the Top Ten would look like if everyone competed.
It would look very different. That is why we cannot get too full of ourselves. Nobody on this forum can say "I'm a fast swimmer" without adding the caveat, "for an old guy/girl."
I was happy with a 3rd place at World's a few years ago knowing there are probably 20 people my age in the Bay area alone that could beat me like a bad monkey in the 200 Back if they had any motivation to find one of their skanky old suits, battle California traffic, and drag their sorry, bloated a** down to Stanford.:bighug:
