This is just a little shout of glee. I have no business on any top ten list. But after three years of training, I managed to find my way onto a good 400 free relay team at LC nats. I was the slowest of the group, but due to the talent of others we managed to claw to a 10th place ranking in the 200+ age group. So I'm the slowest swimmer on the slowest relay, but to my amazement, I made a top ten!!!
Magnificent! Congratulations one and all!
By the way, picking a relay team is kind of like buying a house. You want to get the least expensive home on the block, that way, when you go to sell it, you won't have to worry about being overpriced in the neighborhood.
Talking your way onto a team of greats is a skill no less important than swimming prowess itself.
I have almost, though not quite, completed my own mission in this regard: cajoling Mike Ross, Hodding Carter, and Mike Schmidt into letting me don the antlered swim cap and join the Mighty Moose Men of Maine on a relay someday.
So far, I have talked Mike Ross into doing this by telling him he can be "Vince" in our swiming equivalent of the HBO series, Entourage. Mike Schmidt, I am pretty sure, doesn't mind being "E."
However, Hodding "Turtle" Carter, alas, is miffed by his designation and is trying to blackball me.
We'll have to work out some sort of political compromise.
Jim "Drama" Thornton
This is just a little shout of glee. I have no business on any top ten list. But after three years of training, I managed to find my way onto a good 400 free relay team at LC nats. I was the slowest of the group, but due to the talent of others we managed to claw to a 10th place ranking in the 200+ age group. So I'm the slowest swimmer on the slowest relay, but to my amazement, I made a top ten!!!
Magnificent! Congratulations one and all!
By the way, picking a relay team is kind of like buying a house. You want to get the least expensive home on the block, that way, when you go to sell it, you won't have to worry about being overpriced in the neighborhood.
Talking your way onto a team of greats is a skill no less important than swimming prowess itself.
I have almost, though not quite, completed my own mission in this regard: cajoling Mike Ross, Hodding Carter, and Mike Schmidt into letting me don the antlered swim cap and join the Mighty Moose Men of Maine on a relay someday.
So far, I have talked Mike Ross into doing this by telling him he can be "Vince" in our swiming equivalent of the HBO series, Entourage. Mike Schmidt, I am pretty sure, doesn't mind being "E."
However, Hodding "Turtle" Carter, alas, is miffed by his designation and is trying to blackball me.
We'll have to work out some sort of political compromise.
Jim "Drama" Thornton
