Why does it appear many masters swimmers are taking USMS so seriously?
What's the difference between the typical "selfish train all day", "it's all about me" triathlete and a masters swimmer who seriously trains as hard as they can.... particularly to focus on setting masters records?
Seems like there is a growing parallel between triathletes and many masters swimmers these days.
Isn't it just "masters swimming" for health and fun in the end?
Does a masters record really mean that much?
Is this a good thing? ..... or a turn off for those who look on with amusement.
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Living without passion while waiting for the inevitable, ultimately ignoring what can still be enjoyed; that's absurd.
One man's enjoyment..... Another man's pain.
Of course there many ex national finalists that are turned off by the intensity and success of lessor talents.
Many roll their eyes at the thought of taking USMS for anything more serious than health and fun.
You are right. We are free to enjoy and obsess about our own self indulgences...
Taking care of yourself means you will likely have more energy to give in general, enabling reciprocal abundance from the people around you. As opposed to people who only like to be negative, giving nothing.
One man's enjoyment..... Another man's pain.
Of course there a many ex national finalists that are turned off by the intensity and success of lessor talents.
Many roll their eyes at the thought of taking USMS for anything more serious than health and fun.
The number of ex national finalists is minuscule when compared to the number of people who can swim. Is there a good reason USMS should cater to the ex nation finalist demographic over the majority of swimmers?
Has anyone ever noticed that people who claim to be "non-competitive" are actually the most competitive of all? These are the folks who give you a filthy look, mutter something about "show-offs". and really take it personally if you pass them while swimming, cycling, running, etc..
Openly competitive folks usually have a sense of perspective and just enjoy pushing the envelope against someone else.
(Now, if I could just develop enough speed to really compete.)
Methinks Mr. Ego may have or have had talent, but it might be limited to the pool. Divining the motivations of people (and basic spelling) are clearly not his forte.
Why, Leslie, whatever do you mean? He is a mega-landlord...
Funny stuff in this thread.
Competition is enjoyable to me, even if it is in a sport/event that isn't my cup o' tea.
I'm not going to get all snobby about it though. However, I do enjoy giving people a good stare down and crap talking before said event/sport :D.
Hi mr. Negative! :)
I agree master's swimming is fun (and it should be)
I think it's FUN to work/train hard and see how fast I can go in the various events I choose to enter.
I think it's fun to work on perfecting my strokes through the advice of my friends (the coaches).
I think meets and OW swims are great opportunity's for FUN. I enter these events and try to swim to the best of my ability. When I do a good job I am proud and I celebrate with my friends(other swimmers on my team)!
If I don't do so well that's okay too, I know there are other opportunities for racing elsewhere.
I like to be accountable to myself and my goals for fitness, to me that's fun!
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Mr. Negative is a wing-nut, deep fried on mcstupidity. I wouldn't want to be in any athletic organization that didn't have a goodly number of extremists. Who wants to hang out with a bunch of noodlers? I think USMS needs even more crazies. Most of the hard core athletes I know are only hard core in their training but just like the rest of us away from the gym/pool.
As long as we aren't naming names, let's not name a certain "team" cobbled together from the four points of the US solely for the purpose of breaking a record, and the 6 months of endless crowing about that beforehand and now the 12 months of endless crowing about that afterwards. I saw a record breaking relay assembled in 10 minutes at a meet from a single team without any such pre or post swim self-accolades.
I'm pretty sure we will have to hear about that legendary team assembled for longer than we will have to suffer from Pablo's endless love for all things Flintwood Mic.
I wouldn't want to be in any athletic organization that didn't have a goodly number of extremists. Who wants to hang out with a bunch of noodlers?
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All the Masters WR holders I know have been really nice people(of course most of the ones I know are breaststrokers and we are naturally nicer.:bolt:)
But you folks HAVE to hang around together. Since all of you walk so slow due to duck feet, there's not much opportunity to seperate the pack.
