How many yrs off and still this fast!

it seems as though armstrong could be a USMS all-american easily I reviewed results for the 2010 2-mile cable swim... CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT: 2-Mile Cable Championship EVENT NAME: USMS 2-Mile Cable Open Water National Championship LOCATION: Charlottesville, VA www.usms.org/.../2micblresults.pdf I am well aware no two open water swims are the same... I'll stand by my post... he might make 'all-american' honors if he entered a season of championship open waters USMS All-American means winning an OW national championship in one's age group. It is hard to generalize based on the info given: no two OW courses are exactly the same, he was wearing a wetsuit, plus I'm sure he was saving up a little for the rest of the race. Rob Jones, who has a lot of experience in OW races with and without wetsuits and appears to be about the same speed as LA, once opined that a wetsuit is worth about one minute per mile. Some USMS OW championships are fairly sparsely attended and I can definitely see LA winning his age group. I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be a given or easy -- I think he would have been trounced by LaBianco in the race you link to, for example -- but definitely a good possibility, depending on the race and who showed up.

it seems as though armstrong could be a USMS all-american easily I reviewed results for the 2010 2-mile cable swim... CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT: 2-Mile Cable Championship EVENT NAME: USMS 2-Mile Cable Open Water National Championship LOCATION: Charlottesville, VA www.usms.org/.../2micblresults.pdf I am well aware no two open water swims are the same... I'll stand by my post... he might make 'all-american' honors if he entered a season of championship open waters USMS All-American means winning an OW national championship in one's age group. It is hard to generalize based on the info given: no two OW courses are exactly the same, he was wearing a wetsuit, plus I'm sure he was saving up a little for the rest of the race. Rob Jones, who has a lot of experience in OW races with and without wetsuits and appears to be about the same speed as LA, once opined that a wetsuit is worth about one minute per mile. Some USMS OW championships are fairly sparsely attended and I can definitely see LA winning his age group. I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be a given or easy -- I think he would have been trounced by LaBianco in the race you link to, for example -- but definitely a good possibility, depending on the race and who showed up.