For all of you who know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, this should help you know her better.
For all of you who don't know Leslie the Fortress Livingston, prepare for the thrill ride get-to-know-Leslie event of the year.
A little background: Leslie is the 4th woman in history in the 45-49 year age group to beat 30 seconds in the 50 SCM butterfly.
She did this at age 47, and it is possible that she is actually the FIRST woman in history this old to break 30 at the age (assuming the previous 3 were 45 or 46.)
www.youtube.com/watch
This small film will help you understand all that goes into becoming an extraordinary human being/swimmer. Oh, and there's a little about Leslie in this, too.
Just joking. It's all about Leslie. With some guest appearances by Paul Wolf, Julie "Mulie" Oplinger, Jeff "the Barbarian" Roddin, and Jim Thornton as "the narrator."
Please enjoy before Leslie forces Jim Matysek to take this down.
Well, the grounds for denial are actually in a private email and don't say exactly what Jeff stated. And, as Jeff said, that's just his own personal interpretation of the rules and his wording does not actually appear verbatim in the rules. A certain implicit understood pattern and practice is not necessarily tantamount to an explicit rule. It is my personal opinion, and am likewise entitled to have one despite not being a USMS admin, that the rules are inapplicable and/or very ambiguous and definitely not uniformly or fairly applied. My own lawyer, Mr. Fort, who has many years of litigation experience and does not look at the rules through a swimmers perspective or experience, agrees. So I do not believe I am totally off base here, despite the above post being somewhat officious. Sometimes, one can be so used to thinking the rules say X or interpreting them a certain way to say X, but when you actually read them they don't in fact say X.
And it's like a "swim in practice?" Uh, NOT. If that's how it's viewed, and I don't dispute that the view "exists," I think the camera needs to be re-focused.
I have filed a letter of appeal, seeking recognition under Rule 202.2, and think the whole matter should just be dropped on the forum. The letter is on my blog if anyone feels the need to criticize it there. Or do as you wish. I'm tired of it all, but feel that a person should have a right to appeal. Unfortunately, some seem to think this is an ill-advised dragging my name through the mud idea. If so, so be it. However, that very notion seems ridiculous to me. I am to be pilloried for having the nerve to question the rules? Doesn't seem right to me ...
Perhaps, as some feel, it is simply safer to swim in USS meets. Not nearly as fun, but not nearly as many masters times thrown out for various reasons either.
Well, the grounds for denial are actually in a private email and don't say exactly what Jeff stated. And, as Jeff said, that's just his own personal interpretation of the rules and his wording does not actually appear verbatim in the rules. A certain implicit understood pattern and practice is not necessarily tantamount to an explicit rule. It is my personal opinion, and am likewise entitled to have one despite not being a USMS admin, that the rules are inapplicable and/or very ambiguous and definitely not uniformly or fairly applied. My own lawyer, Mr. Fort, who has many years of litigation experience and does not look at the rules through a swimmers perspective or experience, agrees. So I do not believe I am totally off base here, despite the above post being somewhat officious. Sometimes, one can be so used to thinking the rules say X or interpreting them a certain way to say X, but when you actually read them they don't in fact say X.
And it's like a "swim in practice?" Uh, NOT. If that's how it's viewed, and I don't dispute that the view "exists," I think the camera needs to be re-focused.
I have filed a letter of appeal, seeking recognition under Rule 202.2, and think the whole matter should just be dropped on the forum. The letter is on my blog if anyone feels the need to criticize it there. Or do as you wish. I'm tired of it all, but feel that a person should have a right to appeal. Unfortunately, some seem to think this is an ill-advised dragging my name through the mud idea. If so, so be it. However, that very notion seems ridiculous to me. I am to be pilloried for having the nerve to question the rules? Doesn't seem right to me ...
Perhaps, as some feel, it is simply safer to swim in USS meets. Not nearly as fun, but not nearly as many masters times thrown out for various reasons either.
