Congrats to your group Chris.......must be fun to be at one of your practices...I of course would be lapped time and again..but still a dedicated group like that is awesome.
It isn't all fast people, by any means. We even have (gasp) triathletes. Though actually our triathletes are generally pretty fast swimmers, even if they mostly do freestyle.
We do pretty much race-pace training, though, which does discourage the "lap swimmer" mentality, and perhaps encourages people to participate in competitions. The triathletes still like it, though. (Well, if they didn't, I guess they'd move on...)
Congrats to your group Chris.......must be fun to be at one of your practices...I of course would be lapped time and again..but still a dedicated group like that is awesome.
It isn't all fast people, by any means. We even have (gasp) triathletes. Though actually our triathletes are generally pretty fast swimmers, even if they mostly do freestyle.
We do pretty much race-pace training, though, which does discourage the "lap swimmer" mentality, and perhaps encourages people to participate in competitions. The triathletes still like it, though. (Well, if they didn't, I guess they'd move on...)
How long did it take for you do adapt to Mark's race pace training, when you started swimming with him? It seems most of your practice, even on distance days are more race pace instead of long slow distance
The finalized Top Ten listings for SCM 2010 have been posted. A formatted listing (suitable for printing) will be uploaded shortly and will be available here:
www.usms.org/.../top10print
The listing of 2010 pool All-Americans (now with all three courses) is here:
www.usms.org/.../aalist.php
The listing of 2010 pool All-Stars is here:
www.usms.org/.../aslist.php
YAH! My first Top Ten EVER! Just squeaked in on the 100 fly! After finishing 11th in 3 events for LCM, I'd sworn off even checking these things. Luckily I just took a peek!
I guess there's still time for the whole thing to go south...maybe I should just stop talking now...
YAH! My first Top Ten EVER! Just squeaked in on the 100 fly! After finishing 11th in 3 events for LCM, I'd sworn off even checking these things. Luckily I just took a peek!
I guess there's still time for the whole thing to go south...maybe I should just stop talking now...
HAHA! The whole thing did go south! I just checked my swimmer info page, and I didn't even swim the 100 scm fly in 2010! Clearly this is just an error of some sort...
It was fun while it lasted!
Any idea of when the 2010 pool Relay All-Americans with all 3 courses will be listed. It appears that SCY and LCM are listed. The reason I ask is that I had swimmers see there Relays as Number 1 in the World in the 2010 FINA rankings in the relays and they did not see there names in the 2010 Relay All Americans. Some are first timers and they want there certificate and patch and I told them to wait until its official. And they say it has to be official because they have already ordered them from FINA.
We have newly-redesigned Relay All-American patches. They are beautiful! They were designed by Doug Garcia.
The finalized Top Ten listings for SCM 2010 have been posted. A formatted listing (suitable for printing) will be uploaded shortly and will be available here:
www.usms.org/.../top10print
The listing of 2010 pool All-Americans (now with all three courses) is here:
www.usms.org/.../aalist.php
The listing of 2010 pool All-Stars is here:
www.usms.org/.../aslist.php
Any idea of when the 2010 pool Relay All-Americans with all 3 courses will be listed. It appears that SCY and LCM are listed. The reason I ask is that I had swimmers see there Relays as Number 1 in the World in the 2010 FINA rankings in the relays and they did not see there names in the 2010 Relay All Americans. Some are first timers and they want there certificate and patch and I told them to wait until its official. And they say it has to be official because they have already ordered them from FINA.
