This might get lost in the bowels of the forum here but I've got a great "story time" tale about pros and flip turns and 50s for time.
This is 2009 and I'm waiting for Dave Scott's group to finish up practice (i preferred to roll solo). There's 6 people in every lane and about a third of the pool has it's professional license for triathlon. I've been watching and noticed that in the second to fastest lane my buddy Mike is going about 3rd or 4th and just biding his time or being a slacker. Dave calls out "50 for time" to cap off the session and they all get up to do a meager dive from the deck into a 4 foot pool. The other guys that hop up to toe the line with Mike are always first group out of the water at an IM and several IM titles shared amongst them. At max they are 48min guys. Dave sends them off and Mike crushes them by at least 2 seconds. Mike works 50 hour weeks as an IT professional and he don't TRI, he don't run, he don't bike (and he barely swam at that point either).... but Mikey swam D1.
It was quite an entertaining spanking to watch.
FWIW he's been training 3-4x days a week last few months and popped off a 49 and a 22 at masters meet recently. Super stoked for him!
Perhaps the lesson here is... don't challenge the old (swimming) codger to a duel! Even if they are horribly out of shape (and the distance is less than a 200) ;)
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