I don't normally like to brag, but I am very proud of my very first top 10 ranking.
www.usms.org/.../toptenind.php
You should be proud of your first top ten. You have earned bragging rights among all your teammates who 1) don't want to compete or 2) don't train hard and wonder why they can't swim as fast as you.
GREAT JOB Midas! I'm really impressed with that time! I could not go anywhere near it! :cheerleader:
Thank you! And congrats to you, too on your multiple #1 rankings (first time, right?). Your 50 Fly time was particularly amazing.
I don't normally like to brag, but I am very proud of my very first top 10 ranking.
www.usms.org/.../toptenind.php
That time is essentially what I was doing as a junior in high school. I've got quite a ways to go to get close to my best time of my youth but I'm working on it! (I need to learn not to take it out so fast--I'm dying too much at the end). There are some really amazing swimmers in USMS (including most of you folks who post here). I'm not sure I really belong on the same list, but I'll take it!
GREAT JOB Midas! I'm really impressed with that time! I could not go anywhere near it! :cheerleader:
Thanks very much! I really didn't think I had it in me, to be honest. I think my seed time was like a 2:32 or something! But now that I've done it, I want to do better, of course!
Nice work on the swim, I wish I could go your seed time! Though I did break top 100, top 75 even...I guess there aren't enough masochists who can handle the 200 BR ;) :weightlifter::roids:
Thanks very much! I really didn't think I had it in me, to be honest. I think my seed time was like a 2:32 or something! But now that I've done it, I want to do better, of course!
I just love this attitude. You go 12 seconds under your seed time and your second thought, after "Wow, where did that swim come from" is "Oooo, I could have gone a 2:19!"
Congratulations on an outstanding effort. That'll help you stay motivated.
Rich
Congrats on everyone's Top Ten times. It was very cool when I got my first top ten in 2004. Right now, I am in the Top Ten for my 200 yd fly this year but there was an electronic timing error at the meet that I did that 200 fly at. I am pretty sure that will corrected because other people in that event have time of 1:17 which is impossible unless you are Michael Phelps.
But, I plan to be back in the Top Ten for LCM this year. I will most likely get in for the 200 fly(I did a 2:51 last weekend, 6:27 made the Top Ten last year in the 30-34 age group) this year. Now, my goal is to get in for a few more events. All I can do is my best.
In addition, one year can be really easy to make it while the next year, it will take a miracle to make it. In 2004, I got 6th the SCM 200 fly with a 2:38. The next year, I did a 2:36 and didn't even make the Top Ten.
Woohoo, my first top ten. Thanks of course to Chris Stevenson, Evan Davis and Dave Holland (it's hard to not be motivated following those three guys)!
Way to go TJ! You brought us home.
