2008 Santa Clara International Invitational May 15 - 18

I can see there is really no good compromise here, if somebody in the 25-29 age bracket in the Mens 100m Back breaks the FINA masters world record it's "meaningless" to those on this forum because there are people like Piersol who are faster. Where is the line drawn? When do masters world records start being respected? Maybe it's 40-44, because then there's no USA-S swimmers left. Of course that only works on the mens side because Dara negates that theory. This topic has changed how I see FINA masters world records. I used to feel excited when I broke a record because I felt like "a record is a record". Getting a record is achieving something nobody else has achieved. All I said was that I went faster than the FINA world record for 25-29. I never claimed I got the record. Here is the exact quote from my website: "As it turns out my 100 Back LCM time of 57.00 is faster than the FINA Masters 25-29 World Record time but it doesn't count because it was performed under a USA-S sanctioned meet, therefore it only counts as a Masters American Record." ehoch, I don't really feel as though I was "complaining" as you so put it. Merely stating a fact. I'm sorry it was a "major problem". If it matters, I never even did the research. This fact was told to me by other masters swimmers who had followed my progress in the last 20 masters meets I've been to and were excited for me to swim a similar time in a masters sanctioned meet... it all goes back to why I'm proud to be in an organization that supports each other. Thank you to those who posted such nice comments, I look forward to representing USMS at the trials along with the other masters swimmers competing :)

I can see there is really no good compromise here, if somebody in the 25-29 age bracket in the Mens 100m Back breaks the FINA masters world record it's "meaningless" to those on this forum because there are people like Piersol who are faster. Where is the line drawn? When do masters world records start being respected? Maybe it's 40-44, because then there's no USA-S swimmers left. Of course that only works on the mens side because Dara negates that theory. This topic has changed how I see FINA masters world records. I used to feel excited when I broke a record because I felt like "a record is a record". Getting a record is achieving something nobody else has achieved. All I said was that I went faster than the FINA world record for 25-29. I never claimed I got the record. Here is the exact quote from my website: "As it turns out my 100 Back LCM time of 57.00 is faster than the FINA Masters 25-29 World Record time but it doesn't count because it was performed under a USA-S sanctioned meet, therefore it only counts as a Masters American Record." ehoch, I don't really feel as though I was "complaining" as you so put it. Merely stating a fact. I'm sorry it was a "major problem". If it matters, I never even did the research. This fact was told to me by other masters swimmers who had followed my progress in the last 20 masters meets I've been to and were excited for me to swim a similar time in a masters sanctioned meet... it all goes back to why I'm proud to be in an organization that supports each other. Thank you to those who posted such nice comments, I look forward to representing USMS at the trials along with the other masters swimmers competing :)