nightyard said:
Brilliant haha
how often do you exercise??
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Brilliant haha
stuartC said:MattHall91 said:
Sort of a natural outcome of events really. Joined a startup in 1997 (before startups were cool) as sole developer. Turned around a crap prototype into something that worked. Got taken over in 2000 & parent company mothballed product and made us redundant in 2001.
Sooo, took the fairly brave move of starting a new company & bought back the IPR of the product for £1. (Brave because we got married, bought a house and were expecting our son in that year too).
I changed the focus of the product, sold a few and I'm still here
Glad it all worked out!
Taz said:
Enjoy! Just got back from the gym and in need of a fridge worth of food.
Taz said:
That involves being forced to eat in the mess at 16:30 then doing nothing but PlayStation all night then haha.
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Old man age group :55-60y - 39s for 50 fly ; 34s 50 free ; 1-31 100 fly , 1-16 100 free -ie fairly slow even for my age groupbuzyg said:Mad Professor said:
Jealous, I can't pool swim any more due to allergies. Used to love my pool swimming, though I was never competitive, nice and warm and great training for the winter surf.
What age group and times?
i know a wee bit about allergy -if you have allergic asthma /rhinitis , then the chlorine metabolites which sit as agas layer on the pool surface are airway mucosal senstiters -this can be obviated by taking oral allergic mediator blockade with cetirizine and montelukast +/- as inhaled /intranasal cromoglycate
My son was a US NCAA Div 1 swimmer who had both conditions and managed to train for 20h per week for 4 years on this cocktail of drugs -didnt make him go any faster though
Mad Professor said:Old man age group :55-60y - 39s for 50 fly ; 34s 50 free ; 1-31 100 fly , 1-16 100 free -ie fairly slow even for my age groupbuzyg said:Mad Professor said:
Jealous, I can't pool swim any more due to allergies. Used to love my pool swimming, though I was never competitive, nice and warm and great training for the winter surf.
What age group and times?
i know a wee bit about allergy -if you have allergic asthma /rhinitis , then the chlorine metabolites which sit as agas layer on the pool surface are airway mucosal senstiters -this can be obviated by taking oral allergic mediator blockade with cetirizine and montelukast +/- as inhaled /intranasal cromoglycate
My son was a US NCAA Div 1 swimmer who had both conditions and managed to train for 20h per week for 4 years on this cocktail of drugs -didnt make him go any faster though
Had a quick Google on the College system, NCAA Div1, top of the shop, fine achievement.
What does he swim? My Lad Ed is also semi retired from swimming, at grand old age of 23 :lol: He made the Olympic trials in 2012, but injury and a wage packet have meant a reassessment of priorities since then. He's a sprinter swims late 25s for 50 back and will hopefully finally break into the 24s for 50 fly at the SC county champs tomorrow.
A lot of swimmers knocking about then! I'm captain of the RAF swim team. I'm doing 59 seconds for a 100 back 26 seconds for a 50. 24 50 free too.
I used to years ago alas no more. I'm 27 now and full time in the RAF so just doing it for fun now. I have the power and speed just not the fitness anymore. 200s are a no go these days haha.
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buzyg said:Mad Professor said:Old man age group :55-60y - 39s for 50 fly ; 34s 50 free ; 1-31 100 fly , 1-16 100 free -ie fairly slow even for my age groupbuzyg said:Jealous, I can't pool swim any more due to allergies. Used to love my pool swimming, though I was never competitive, nice and warm and great training for the winter surf.
What age group and times?
i know a wee bit about allergy -if you have allergic asthma /rhinitis , then the chlorine metabolites which sit as agas layer on the pool surface are airway mucosal senstiters -this can be obviated by taking oral allergic mediator blockade with cetirizine and montelukast +/- as inhaled /intranasal cromoglycate
My son was a US NCAA Div 1 swimmer who had both conditions and managed to train for 20h per week for 4 years on this cocktail of drugs -didnt make him go any faster though
Had a quick Google on the College system, NCAA Div1, top of the shop, fine achievement.
My Lad Ed is also semi retired from swimming, at grand old age of 23 :lol: He made the Olympic trials in 2012, but injury and a wage packet have meant a reassessment of priorities since then. He's a sprinter swims late 25s for 50 back and will hopefully finally break into the 24s for 50 fly at the SC county champs tomorrow.
200IM was his #1 event , also swam 100 back /100fly -he's not been in the pool for a year now since he gradauted last year and showing no interest of going back .He peaked at 15/16y and that got him a scholarship worth $250K which paid for most of his education over there .
Those times from Ed arent too shabby even now -good thing with sprinters is they dont have to spend so much time in the pool -its gym work which really counts .
Mad Professor said:buzyg said:Mad Professor said:
Had a quick Google on the College system, NCAA Div1, top of the shop, fine achievement.
My Lad Ed is also semi retired from swimming, at grand old age of 23 :lol: He made the Olympic trials in 2012, but injury and a wage packet have meant a reassessment of priorities since then. He's a sprinter swims late 25s for 50 back and will hopefully finally break into the 24s for 50 fly at the SC county champs tomorrow.
200IM was his #1 event , also swam 100 back /100fly -he's not been in the pool for a year now since he gradauted last year and showing no interest of going back .He peaked at 15/16y and that got him a scholarship worth $250K which paid for most of his education over there .
Those times from Ed arent too shabby even now -good thing with sprinters is they don't have to spend so much time in the pool -its gym work which really counts .
Pretty common age for swimmers to stop to be honest. You know yourself how much work is required and the 200IM is the hardest race in the pool. IMHO Ed was still motivated by the 2012 Olympic dream at that age. He was training with some incredible talent back then, so the pain was shared, one or two are now top line internationals and still really nice blokes.
No records at counties today, but won all his races and brought the cups back home again.
Couple more races tomorrow.Mad Professor
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Best of luck to Ed today