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.
Bill,
And Jim's video didn't even touch on his/our most favorite hypochondriatic topic: shoulders. That topic generates way more paranoia than mere fatigue.
Obsessing about shoulders is normal behavior for Masters Swimmers.
Swim Hyponchondriasis: ( Hyperchondrical Disorder )
Unlike a conversion disorder where an individual perceives a functional disorder and simply use it to escape from uncomfortable situations, hypochondriacs have no real illness, but are overly obsessed over normal bodily functions. They read into the sensations of these normal bodily functions the presence of a feared disease. The main features of this disorders are:
Because of misinterpreting bodily symptoms, the patient becomes preoccupied with ideas or fears of swimming unnaturally slowly due to the illness.
Appropriate medical investigation, reassurance, and plain ol' common sense do not relieve these ideas.
These ideas are not delusional (as in Delusional Disorder) and are not restricted to concern about appearance (as in Body Dysmorphic Disorder), but are simply silly.
They cause distress that is neither clinically important nor impairs the achievement of Top 10 times.
They have lasted 6 months or longer. Some may last a lifetime (see Whiners).
The only known cure for this troublesome disorder is a video "outing" of the patient, exposing the disorder to the cold glare of day and the opprobrium of the swimmer's peers. Which sometimes works, but more often than not does not.
LMAO!!!
Obsessing about shoulders is normal behavior for Masters Swimmers.
Excellent! I'm normal, but I'm not sure about Jim. Our last convo:
Jim: "shoulder hurts"
Leslie: "mine is fine"
Jim: "shoulder hurts from the brutality of Bill's sets"
Leslie: "do less yardage and lift weights"
Jim: "but brutality brings out the best in me"
Leslie: "but brutality hurts your shoulder"
Jim: "shoulder hurts"
Leslie: "do your rotator cuff exercises"
Jim: "I don't go to the gym."
Leslie: "you should"
Jim: "shoulder hurts"
Leslie: ttyl
Bill, can you give me the citation so I can look up more than just the abstract of this critically important paper on Medline?
For what it's worth, there is some new experimental research being funded by the NIMH which suggests that a combination of the horse tranquilizer ketamine and pink-tinted goggles can substantially relieve symptoms by causing the patient to project hallucinations of his/her symptoms onto other people.
When these other people begin to believe these projections, alas, it can trigger Swim Hypochondriasis by Proxy of the Munchhausen Variety, with overtones of Folie a Dieu, which I am pretty sure means that god is laughing at you.
Thanks for the citation and your effort to drive Swim Hypochondriasis off these forums for good!
Jim, after an all out, exhaustive, several minute effort to replicate my "research", I confess that I am unable to find even this abstract, much less the referenced study. I can only conclude that I, suffering from a projection caused by Proxy of the Jayson Blair/NY Times Variety, engaged in unintentional non-plagiarism. In other words, I totally made it up.
Damn peer review process.
I think USMS gets its medals from China. Are there any lawyers out there? Do you think I could get some kind of settlement, at least have my chelation therapy paid for, maybe just a million or so in mad money for punitive damages?
Thanks, Donna. I think you're on to something!
Jim, this was a great video you provided and such a tribute to Leslie, I thoroughly enjoyed it, as well as photos of some here I haven't had the opportunity to meet.
World Records are evasive to many of us, so my congrats to Leslie! Huge accomplishment.
Hey, Jim, maybe wearing all those medals is another reason you are "sick"; too much metal via absorption! Had you thought of that one? HA!
I think Leslie should consider the Mount Everest in the future: the, uh, 200 fly?
Donna
I just learned that this swim was disallowed.:censor::censor::censor:It wasn't allowed because it was a "time trial."Since it was agreed upon by the meet director and head referee,this seems nonsensical and unfair.
In 2003 at the SCM meet at ASU they measured the pool after the Sat. events and found the bulkhead had slipped so that some lanes were up to 1-2 cm short.As all those times would not count for TT they allowed the affected swimmers to swim time trials.For me at least a time trial is not the same as racing against someone and I swam .4 sec slower.The Sat. time would have been a ZR,but at least the time trial time counted for TT.Several swimmers at that meet also swam time trials.USA-S swimmers are routinely given time trials to make cuts.Several WRs have been set at time trials.Write your congressperson,sic Geek or Thorton on them.This wrong must be righted!!!!!
