What Records Have You Broken?

Aren't 6 and 7 the same? My own list -- colored by my experiences in 40-44 and now 45-49 -- would rank them 1. FINA World Records 2. USMS National Records 3. USMS Pool All Star Selections 4. FINA World Number 1 Swims in the World Top Ten 5. USMS Number 1 Swims in the USMS Top Ten 6. FINA World Championship Meet Titles 7. USMS National Meet Championships 8. FINA World Top Ten Selections 9. USMS National Top Ten Selections Wonder why FINA doesn't have the equivalent of All-Star selections? I didn't think of it until I looked at this list. I would have put it between 2 and 3 on my list. How about Long Distance recognition? You've got LD All-Stars and LD AAs. I'd put the latter as #10, to be honest, but I'm not sure where I'd put the LD All-Stars... Oh, and while I agree that WRs should be #1, there are some USMS records that are faster than existing WRs (eg, if done at a USA-S meet, or if they missed the WR application deadline of 60 days). I don't know why they don't have an All Star list? They don't have one for Swimming either. Long Distance would have to be a separate category. When they get a data base of swims from around the country and get there point system, they could do something like this. For the World right now, I don't think you could compare masters like you can with Swimming. With Grand Prix's and World events they can do that. We really don't have any Open Water Records except Cable and Postal Swims. So swimmers in the Open Water events would not be getting credit like the cable and postal swims. The data base would have to be set up with a point system or some parameters because unlike the pool, you can't compare times from races in equal distances. With all this, I think a USMS Hierarchy could be set up for Masters Long Distance Swimming but not a World Hierarchy. We are always going to have a problem with the USMS National Records being faster than the World Records because of swims being done in non sanctioned meets. FINA is not going to change this and I believe every swimmer of this caliber knows that so they just have to get to a sanctioned masters meet and swim the World Record.

Aren't 6 and 7 the same? My own list -- colored by my experiences in 40-44 and now 45-49 -- would rank them 1. FINA World Records 2. USMS National Records 3. USMS Pool All Star Selections 4. FINA World Number 1 Swims in the World Top Ten 5. USMS Number 1 Swims in the USMS Top Ten 6. FINA World Championship Meet Titles 7. USMS National Meet Championships 8. FINA World Top Ten Selections 9. USMS National Top Ten Selections Wonder why FINA doesn't have the equivalent of All-Star selections? I didn't think of it until I looked at this list. I would have put it between 2 and 3 on my list. How about Long Distance recognition? You've got LD All-Stars and LD AAs. I'd put the latter as #10, to be honest, but I'm not sure where I'd put the LD All-Stars... Oh, and while I agree that WRs should be #1, there are some USMS records that are faster than existing WRs (eg, if done at a USA-S meet, or if they missed the WR application deadline of 60 days). I don't know why they don't have an All Star list? They don't have one for Swimming either. Long Distance would have to be a separate category. When they get a data base of swims from around the country and get there point system, they could do something like this. For the World right now, I don't think you could compare masters like you can with Swimming. With Grand Prix's and World events they can do that. We really don't have any Open Water Records except Cable and Postal Swims. So swimmers in the Open Water events would not be getting credit like the cable and postal swims. The data base would have to be set up with a point system or some parameters because unlike the pool, you can't compare times from races in equal distances. With all this, I think a USMS Hierarchy could be set up for Masters Long Distance Swimming but not a World Hierarchy. We are always going to have a problem with the USMS National Records being faster than the World Records because of swims being done in non sanctioned meets. FINA is not going to change this and I believe every swimmer of this caliber knows that so they just have to get to a sanctioned masters meet and swim the World Record.