I did my 4km swim....

Micheal Artindale said:

On Aug 1 I did the 4km swim I said I was going to do.

I had the safety boat. Unfortunately the electric engine wasnt going to
work, so they ran it at low speed and in nutral.

The first kilometre was nice. The second and third were ok. The last 500m
was hard. I was almost at the point that I did want to quit.

I finished it in 2hrs 43mins 05 sec. Not good, but, I did it.

In a month, I will attempt 8 km.........

Micheal

That's pretty good. I've worked my way up to 4 km but that's in a heated
25 metre pool.

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Micheal Artindale said:

On Aug 1 I did the 4km swim I said I was going to do.

I had the safety boat. Unfortunately the electric engine wasnt going to
work, so they ran it at low speed and in nutral.

The first kilometre was nice. The second and third were ok. The last 500m
was hard. I was almost at the point that I did want to quit.

I finished it in 2hrs 43mins 05 sec. Not good, but, I did it.

In a month, I will attempt 8 km.........

Micheal

That's pretty good.

Is it? I should be proud of myself, then:
I do every day of six days a week 2 km. in a 50 mtrs pool in exactly 76 min,
plus or minus 2 mins.
Juan
PS: I almost forgot: I am 75 years old

Quoted message said:

I've worked my way up to 4 km but that's in a heated 25 metre pool.

Zoom

Juan Moreira said:

Quoted message said:

That's pretty good.

Is it? I should be proud of myself, then:
I do every day of six days a week 2 km. in a 50 mtrs pool in exactly 76 min,
plus or minus 2 mins.
Juan
PS: I almost forgot: I am 75 years old

Well, if we're really going to have a pissing contest here, on Monday my
time for 2 km. in a 50 meters pool was 44 minutes and I'm your age.

Ruth Kazez

Ruth:

44 minutes for 2km at 75 is outstanding. Congrats! By the way, I still
want some of that delicious food that you posted in your website for
the birthday party.

My dad is 85 and I take him swimming 2 to 3 times a week. He swims
500yds in about 35 minutes on his back with his arms next to his torso
and just flutter kicking. They know him in the pool as the man that
swims with his feet. He used to have a good crawl too. When he was
young, he used to swim close to 1 minute in the 100. He said that he
learned from a correspondence course from Johnny weismuller. He told me
he learned on a bench with his arms spinning in circles straight down.
He was a fast stroker and fast kicker. When he is done swimming he
watches me swim. I am a slow stroker, fq, two beat kicker. He tells me
that I have a good stroke but that he is going to show me how to swim
faster and better, and he tells me about his technique.

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

Andres

rtk said:

Juan Moreira said:

Quoted message said:

That's pretty good.

Is it? I should be proud of myself, then:
I do every day of six days a week 2 km. in a 50 mtrs pool in exactly 76 min,
plus or minus 2 mins.
Juan
PS: I almost forgot: I am 75 years old

Well, if we're really going to have a pissing contest here, on Monday my
time for 2 km. in a 50 meters pool was 44 minutes and I'm your age.

Ruth Kazez

Ruth:

44 minutes for 2km at 75 is outstanding. Congrats! By the way, I still
want some of that delicious food that you posted in your website for
the birthday party.

My dad is 85 and I take him swimming 2 to 3 times a week. He swims
500yds in about 35 minutes on his back with his arms next to his torso
and just flutter kicking. They know him in the pool as the man that
swims with his feet. He used to have a good crawl too. When he was
young, he used to swim close to 1 minute in the 100. He said that he
learned from a correspondence course from Johnny weismuller. He told me
he learned on a bench with his arms spinning in circles straight down.
He was a fast stroker and fast kicker. When he is done swimming he
watches me swim. I am a slow stroker, fq, two beat kicker. He tells me
that I have a good stroke but that he is going to show me how to swim
faster and better, and he tells me about his technique.

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

Andres

rtk said:

Juan Moreira said:

Quoted message said:

That's pretty good.

Is it? I should be proud of myself, then:
I do every day of six days a week 2 km. in a 50 mtrs pool in exactly 76 min,
plus or minus 2 mins.
Juan
PS: I almost forgot: I am 75 years old

Well, if we're really going to have a pissing contest here, on Monday my
time for 2 km. in a 50 meters pool was 44 minutes and I'm your age.

Ruth Kazez

Quoted message said:

BTW, I am sort of an amateur,
wannabe painter.
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

IMHO, I like El Paso Cyclist best,
and the Sex 2003 group and the
Triathlete, too.

Some others are also very good, but
I don't like the ones like the
Women collection and the second of
the Cyclists collection, where you
can see a very recognizable outline
within all the wild lines and curves.
Those familiar forms makes the rest
seem forced/extraneous.

I'll have to show these to my wife,
who is a painter.

In article <[email hidden]>,

Quoted post said:

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

Those are good. They remind me of Frida Kahlo and Picasso.

Hey, Donal and Martin! Thanks for the compliments. I have some new
ones, but I need to take pictures and post them. My favorite is of my
grandsona and me riding. Two of my dogs had taken off and we went
riding around the neighborhood to look for them. We found them cruising
as happy as every. I am honored that I remind Martin of Frida and
Picasso, but I don't think that neither of them deserve their work to
be compared with mine.

Andres

Hey, Donal and Martin! Thanks for the compliments. I have some new
ones, but I need to take pictures and post them. My favorite is of my
grandsona and me riding. Two of my dogs had taken off and we went
riding around the neighborhood to look for them. We found them cruising
as happy as every. I am honored that I remind Martin of Frida and
Picasso, but I don't think that neither of them deserve their work to
be compared with mine.

Andres

BW, the women came from a sports illustrated almanac that I bought at
Barnes and Noble so that I could get contours of women posing. Later, I
found the almanac hanging from my teenager step sons room.

Andres

BW, the women came from a sports illustrated almanac that I bought at
Barnes and Noble so that I could get contours of women posing. Later, I
found the almanac hanging from my teenager step sons room.

Andres

Quoted post said:

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

Pretty good stuff!

Quoted post said:

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

Pretty good stuff!

Quoted message said:

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

I'm impressed, especially about the war series. Have you seen the book
Palestine by Sacco? I think you'd like it. Also Spiegelman's Maus?
Not because they're illustrators, but because of how they use it with
the particular approach they have to political stuff. (Opposite
positions, by the way.)

Ruth K

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Quoted message said:

Well, if we're really going to have a pissing contest here, on Monday my
time for 2 km. in a 50 meters pool was 44 minutes and I'm your age.

Ruth Kazez

Lessee..... Qualifying times for the 1500m at this summer's USMS LC
Nationals would be

75-79 Male 32:44.70
75-79 Female 39:32.79

(If you scale those times up to 2000m, you'll notice that Ruth really is
an elite swimmer in her age group.)

But of course, not everybody is elite. You don't need to qualify for
Nationals to be considered a good swimmer. :-)

Ross

Ross Bogue said:

(If you scale those times up to 2000m, you'll notice that Ruth really is
an elite swimmer in her age group.)

I could easily qualify in the men's division. But then there's that
quandary, to speedo or not to speedo. Nah, I'll stay with the women and
not have to deal with the fig leaf problems. We're not so coy.
WYSIWYdon'tG.

Ruth

Thanks Ruth! I just ordered two of the Sacco books, Palestine and one
about Bosnia.

Andres

rtk said:

Quoted message said:

BTW, I am sort of an amateur, wannabe painter. Here is my website:
www.geocities.com/andresmuro/art.html

I'm impressed, especially about the war series. Have you seen the book
Palestine by Sacco? I think you'd like it. Also Spiegelman's Maus?
Not because they're illustrators, but because of how they use it with
the particular approach they have to political stuff. (Opposite
positions, by the way.)

Ruth K

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ross Bogue said:

Lessee..... Qualifying times for the 1500m at this summer's USMS LC
Nationals would be

75-79 Male 32:44.70
75-79 Female 39:32.79

Hey! An even MORE realistic swimming goal, not requiring a time machine!
All I have to do is wait a few decades -- without aging, I guess, so
that my swim times don't increase; then I'll be National quality!

And if I get impatient, I can be a quality swimmer earlier,
just by switching genders.

Boy, this creative goal-setting is a lot easier than
actually getting into the water to practice.

dave

(My 1500 speed / age is .0000018 meters per square minute . How's that?)

In article <[email hidden]>,

Ross Bogue said:

Lessee..... Qualifying times for the 1500m at this summer's USMS LC
Nationals would be

75-79 Male 32:44.70
75-79 Female 39:32.79

Hey! An even MORE realistic swimming goal, not requiring a time machine!
All I have to do is wait a few decades -- without aging, I guess, so
that my swim times don't increase; then I'll be National quality!

And if I get impatient, I can be a quality swimmer earlier,
just by switching genders.

Boy, this creative goal-setting is a lot easier than
actually getting into the water to practice.

dave

(My 1500 speed / age is .0000018 meters per square minute . How's that?)