What is the oldest swimmer that you have been on a team with, or had the opportunity to coach?
My personal experience: an 81 year old, and let me tell you that he blew almost everyone else out of the water with regard to endurance! He could go on and on forever (not very fast, though).
Definitely interested in hearing others!
What is the oldest swimmer that you have been on a team with, or had the opportunity to coach?
Don't know how old the oldest swimmer was because I didn't ask. Both older and faster than I, however.
If he's 100 in 2000, he should be 109 now. What impressed me is that he started swimming at 82, at which age most people would have stopped thinking about doing sports.
Er, I have photographic documentation of Ted Erikson doing the New Year's plunge yesterday, and he's, um (18, count fingers, carry 2-13, minus 29, squared), in the ballpark! And is heading up a 3-generation swim of the Bosporus this summer! :)
Of course, he is also a swimming phenom.
Happy New Year! Did everyone get out for a blue moon swim? Under the dripping icicles?
What is the oldest swimmer that you have been on a team with, or had the opportunity to coach?
Don't know how old the oldest swimmer was because I didn't ask. Both older and faster than I, however.
If he's 100 in 2000, he should be 109 now. What impressed me is that he started swimming at 82, at which age most people would have stopped thinking about doing sports.
Er, I have photographic documentation of Ted Erikson doing the New Year's plunge yesterday, and he's, um (18, count fingers, carry 2-13, minus 29, squared), in the ballpark! And is heading up a 3-generation swim of the Bosporus this summer! :)
Of course, he is also a swimming phenom.
Happy New Year! Did everyone get out for a blue moon swim? Under the dripping icicles?
