1,000th 1650 FLY, Where will she go now?

Wookiee, please post a video of your latest 200 fly. I have much to learn from you, and I can't wait to get started! :cheerleader: Doug, I have asked a question, what is the point of doing it everyday. The article doesn't address it. It's a valid question. The answers "because she can" doesn't address why she does it everyday. I would find it boring to do everyday. You know as well as I do that fly swum correctly, doesn't feel any worse than free or back at the end of races. Fly swum with poor form is very difficult for people. This lady must have good form to be able to do it everday, that's not what I am questioning. I am asking why does she do it everyday. I will be glad to send you a video of my 200 fly, the next time I choose to race the event, which will be my decision not someone else's request.

Why the hell would anyone want to swim fly every morning for that distance? Obviously, her shoulders don't hurt enough. I did a whopping 2500 yards at practice tonight and my shoulders didn't loosen up until about the 1500 yard point. Not a single stroke of fly. Skip

breaststroke You forgot a couple of letters while . No, I didn't forgot. I just don't care for that useless stroke or any of it's distances. The only benefit to breastroke events in masters swimming is to provide rest breaks for everyone else

Now that they have taken their rightful place atop the ACC, I can see your point. Take heart, though: you have NCAA violations aplenty a little closer to home. I guess that's kind of interesting, or at least it distracts one from the inability to one more than one game in a row. Yup, first we get screwed by Lane Kiffin as he bolts to USC. Hope they enjoy their future NCAA violations that he brings. Now, we gets screwed by the best bball coach the men's team has ever been led by. Thank goodness there are still the Lady Vols bball team. At least they don't go on the NCAA watch list.

I guess it's just too complicated (your description, by the way) for you, Wookiee. Mrs. Simpson, please go back to tell me where I said " I can't do it" Thank You. Tell Homer "hi" for me.

I don't know the answer to your question, but I'm guessing that it will be similar to the sort of answers that came up in the "Why Do You Swim?" thread a while back. (I think it was called that... the Advanced Search feature doesn't like to search on such generic words, so I didn't actually find it.) I look forward to watching your video! :applaud: To write about an article about swimming fly everday without stating "why she" doesn't make sense. I think she's nuts but more power to her. Swimming the same thing everday for the majority of the practice seems boring, unless there is a "why" to it. You will get the video, it maybe soon or it might be awhile.

I give a hearty salute to Ms. Munger. Anyone that can swim fly for 50 to 60 minutes is a star. I'm not sure that doing it in a big long crowded meet is a cool thing. I'll think about it. Elaine, as much as I detest your color and font, don't be harsh on ole wookester, he is supposed to be editing my book about the travels of two close buddies. It's almost done!

However she does it - what a goal!!!!!:applaud::applaud:

I agree with wookiee that there isn't much of a benefit or purpose to doing that much straight fly regularly, at least from a competitive standpoint. IMO, it would be far more useful to break it out into sets. However, it is definitely challenging and impressive at any age. So, if she reached her goal, congrats!

She does use a dolphin kick the whole way, rather than the "legal in masters" breaststroke kick (which I personally don't call butterfly). This kind of annoys me. There is a reason USMS allows this kick and it is part of our rule book and USA Swimming's rule book. Fly can be quite challenging for many older swimmers and the only way they can do it is with this kick.