I was going through the heat sheet from Nationals and noticed an ad for a new book by Hodding Carter called "Off the Deep End." Check out the reviews on the Barnes & Noble site: search.barnesandnoble.com/.../isbnInquiry.asp
It comes out in June. Sounds pretty entertaining to me!
P.S. I hope this isn't construed as an ad for the book. I don't know Carter and have no commercial interest in this book.
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This is my first post. I've been too chicken to post for about a year now but when I saw there was a thread concerning my book, I thought I could/should finally say something. I'll try to explain my book in a nutshell: I got back in the pool 4 years ago and insanely thought I could equal my times from my senior year at Kenyon with just a few months of training. I went to the 2004 New England Masters Champs at Harvard to swim with the "old farts"--in other words, men and women my age--just for fun and got my behind handed to me. I literally had to crawl on my hands and knees after the 200. I quit for a few months but I'd been bitten. Sometime later I returned and for some sick reason still believed I could equal and beat my old times--on one level tongue in cheek, on another level wide-eyed and more than a little insane. Did I say I wanted to make it to the Olympic Trials to sell books? No, I said that and still say it because it motivates me and I like non-athletes' reaction to an old guy trying to be fast. They don't understand how fast men over 40 like Mike Ross, Dennis Baker, Paul Carter, the Smiths, and some of you who have posted here can swim (they seem to get the women swimming fast, though--explain that one) and I like to tell them how the face of elite athletics is getting a lot more wrinkly. Why the book? I write about what I do, plain and simple. It's meant to be a funny book--I believe there are a few chapters that many of you with a sense of humor can relate to--and I hope some of you enjoy it. I got very sick recently (staph infection, renal failure) and thus didn't make it to Nationals, but I will be back in action soon--now shooting for 2012, I guess. And thanks for the support, Tom.
This is my first post. I've been too chicken to post for about a year now but when I saw there was a thread concerning my book, I thought I could/should finally say something. I'll try to explain my book in a nutshell: I got back in the pool 4 years ago and insanely thought I could equal my times from my senior year at Kenyon with just a few months of training. I went to the 2004 New England Masters Champs at Harvard to swim with the "old farts"--in other words, men and women my age--just for fun and got my behind handed to me. I literally had to crawl on my hands and knees after the 200. I quit for a few months but I'd been bitten. Sometime later I returned and for some sick reason still believed I could equal and beat my old times--on one level tongue in cheek, on another level wide-eyed and more than a little insane. Did I say I wanted to make it to the Olympic Trials to sell books? No, I said that and still say it because it motivates me and I like non-athletes' reaction to an old guy trying to be fast. They don't understand how fast men over 40 like Mike Ross, Dennis Baker, Paul Carter, the Smiths, and some of you who have posted here can swim (they seem to get the women swimming fast, though--explain that one) and I like to tell them how the face of elite athletics is getting a lot more wrinkly. Why the book? I write about what I do, plain and simple. It's meant to be a funny book--I believe there are a few chapters that many of you with a sense of humor can relate to--and I hope some of you enjoy it. I got very sick recently (staph infection, renal failure) and thus didn't make it to Nationals, but I will be back in action soon--now shooting for 2012, I guess. And thanks for the support, Tom.
