Michael Ross sets 5 National Records at Colonies Zones
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Event 16 Men 40-44 200 Yard IM
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ZONE: Z 2:03.06 4/2/2000 Greg Oxley
NATL: ! 1:55.82 5/4/2008 ROQUE SANTOS
Name Age Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Ross, Michael 41 MESC 1:55.15 1:51.85! 9
23.80 50.97 (27.17)
1:24.54 (33.57) 1:51.85 (27.31)
Event 24 Men 40-44 50 Yard Backstroke
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ZONE: Z 24.45 4/13/2008 Chris Stevenson, VMST-VA
NATL: ! 23.19 5/4/2008 MICHAEL ROSS
Name Age Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Ross, Michael 41 MESC 22.99 22.77! 9
Event 42 Men 40-44 50 Yard Butterfly
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ZONE: Z 23.72 4/12/2008 Steve Hiltabiddle, UNAT-NJ
NATL: ! 22.82 5/4/2008 STEVE HILTABIDDLE
Name Age Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Ross, Michael 41 MESC 23.02 22.61! 9
Event 48 Men 40-44 100 Yard Backstroke
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ZONE: Z 51.88 4/13/2008 Chris Stevenson, VMST-VA
NATL: ! 49.40 5/4/2008 MICHAEL ROSS
Name Age Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Ross, Michael 41 MESC 49.40 48.49! 9
23.41 48.49 (25.08)
Event 52 Men 40-44 50 Yard Freestyle
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ZONE: Z 21.78 4/21/2002 Michael Fell
NATL: ! 20.95 4/25/2004 PAUL SMITH
Name Age Team Seed Finals Points
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1 Ross, Michael 41 MESC 21.25 20.84! 9
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Former Member
Yes, I am proud to say that I swam for Rob Orr at Princeton.
I can do all the strokes. All THREE strokes, that is. ;) I tell the kids that I coach that I don't BELIEVE in the breaststroke. I have heard that it exists and that there are grainy videos of it, but I doubt its existence.
I didn't do very much IM after high school because of my inability to do breaststroke. In college, I swam the 100 Back and the 200 free. I trained for the 500 and swam it, but it wasn't the race that I identified with, so I swam it reluctantly.
I have started to do the breaststroke in recent years because I was feeling like a hypocrite when I was coaching, asking the kids to work on their weak strokes when I was unwilling to work on mine. I am starting out slow, one 50 at a time.
Paul, I will post some occasional workouts. Roque Santos has been trying to bait me into swimming the 400 IM, but I am too smart for his tricks. The 500? Oof, I tried that in my first years back and I still sting from the experience.
Leslie, as for outside training, I don't do a lot. I intend to do more and have been discussing with Mr. Schmidt a plan whereby I will swim less on my recovery days and increase my strength training. At the moment, I do an hour routine 2 times a week with an instructor friend of mine. I call the routine a "core" routine, but that is not completely accurate. The workouts are directed at improving my weaknesses and give me more mobility and speed. It is tough to describe. I will post sometime with more specifics.
% kicking? The straight answer is less than 10%, but that is misleading. First, I kick with a 6 beat kick in every set, even breaststroke ;). Second, I try to add elements to my workouts where I dolphin kick off the turns, so even though the set may say 6x100's free on 6 minutes, there is really an implied directive "with 6 dolphin kicks off each wall".
Kicking is a "pride" for me, so I enjoy kick sets, but most of my kick sets these days are designed to help me find a more efficient kick. For instance, 6x50 dolphin kick on back, 3 with fins, 3 without. 1+4 are a with large amplitude, 2+5 are very tight amplitude and 3+6 are somewhere in the middle.
Yes, I am proud to say that I swam for Rob Orr at Princeton.
I can do all the strokes. All THREE strokes, that is. ;) I tell the kids that I coach that I don't BELIEVE in the breaststroke. I have heard that it exists and that there are grainy videos of it, but I doubt its existence.
I didn't do very much IM after high school because of my inability to do breaststroke. In college, I swam the 100 Back and the 200 free. I trained for the 500 and swam it, but it wasn't the race that I identified with, so I swam it reluctantly.
I have started to do the breaststroke in recent years because I was feeling like a hypocrite when I was coaching, asking the kids to work on their weak strokes when I was unwilling to work on mine. I am starting out slow, one 50 at a time.
Paul, I will post some occasional workouts. Roque Santos has been trying to bait me into swimming the 400 IM, but I am too smart for his tricks. The 500? Oof, I tried that in my first years back and I still sting from the experience.
Leslie, as for outside training, I don't do a lot. I intend to do more and have been discussing with Mr. Schmidt a plan whereby I will swim less on my recovery days and increase my strength training. At the moment, I do an hour routine 2 times a week with an instructor friend of mine. I call the routine a "core" routine, but that is not completely accurate. The workouts are directed at improving my weaknesses and give me more mobility and speed. It is tough to describe. I will post sometime with more specifics.
% kicking? The straight answer is less than 10%, but that is misleading. First, I kick with a 6 beat kick in every set, even breaststroke ;). Second, I try to add elements to my workouts where I dolphin kick off the turns, so even though the set may say 6x100's free on 6 minutes, there is really an implied directive "with 6 dolphin kicks off each wall".
Kicking is a "pride" for me, so I enjoy kick sets, but most of my kick sets these days are designed to help me find a more efficient kick. For instance, 6x50 dolphin kick on back, 3 with fins, 3 without. 1+4 are a with large amplitude, 2+5 are very tight amplitude and 3+6 are somewhere in the middle.
