You seem to have even earned respect all the way out here Q!
At workout tonight when I was talking about the kicking we were going to be doing, one swimmer told us, "That Q Guy from USMS says we don't have to kick anything over a 25!"
Congrats to you from the Night Nadadores!!
Now, if people would only accurately remember my advice :) I wonder what I actually said that converted into you only need to kick a 25. Oh how I wish that were true.
Where do I need to post that Ahelee has more swimming wisdom in her left pinky toe than I have in my entire body? The Night Nadadores would be better served by listening to you than reading anything I have to say. At least about swimming.
Woo hoo!!
I can relate to the aging up. I do as well :badday:
Me too. My bday falls right before USMS nationals in Atlanta...damn you GA masters for not putting the meet the first week of may!!!!!!! :)
Splits from natonals in top10.
There was an earlier discussion about splits from nationals not showing up in the Event Rankings. I admit that I was worried. I was happy to see that they did show up in the Top10 preliminary lists. In Indy I had a great split as leadoff on an 800 relay and my 800 on the way to the 1500 was better than an earlier meet. Walt Reid is amazing to check all those splits at nationals!
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
