Adult Onset Swimmer Qualifying for Nats

Thanks Rob! Learning the other strokes has been challenging, to say the least. It's super impressive that your teammate was able to qualify for a sprint stroke event in SCY. That's super challenging. The only stroke events I do somewhat regularly are the 400 IM and 200 fly. I've not made NQTs for those in SCY yet, though I did place in the top 10 in both last year in Santa Clara, but I intend to keep chipping away at my times and hopefully someday will get the NQTs for them :) :blush: -- Elaine! You're making me blush! Really wish that you were able to come to Nationals. Bummer that the injury kept me out of summer Nats in Maryland last year when I would have been able to meet you. And now you're in the same position this spring. Hopefully we'll both be healthy at some point! Any chance you'll be healthy enough to go to Ohio this summer? I'm planning on attending and probably giving up bike riding so a bike wreck won't keep me out this year! :D It was recommended by my first physical therapist, Skippy Mattson, a Masters breaststroker that I don't even start kicking breaststroke until six months out from surgery. Once I decided to have surgery and learned of the timeline required to be back 100%, I decided right then and there to not go to any Nationals in 2015 including the National Senior Games that I had planned on competing at in July. It's going to be a lot of trial and error in my training. Although I am back to kicking other strokes, right now my still-not-100%-healed hip flexor is telling me that I better take it slow. 2,000 yards without the pull buoy was fine, but when I tried to increase yardage and/or intensity, that ol' familiar hip flexor pain returned. :censor: The pull buoy is back out of the bag again, and I'm needing to alternate swimming and pulling when my leg gets fatigued. I've been told it's going to take awhile to get completely past this, so it wouldn't give me enough time to train for Nationals this year. At this point, I'm planning on Greensboro.

Thanks Rob! Learning the other strokes has been challenging, to say the least. It's super impressive that your teammate was able to qualify for a sprint stroke event in SCY. That's super challenging. The only stroke events I do somewhat regularly are the 400 IM and 200 fly. I've not made NQTs for those in SCY yet, though I did place in the top 10 in both last year in Santa Clara, but I intend to keep chipping away at my times and hopefully someday will get the NQTs for them :) :blush: -- Elaine! You're making me blush! Really wish that you were able to come to Nationals. Bummer that the injury kept me out of summer Nats in Maryland last year when I would have been able to meet you. And now you're in the same position this spring. Hopefully we'll both be healthy at some point! Any chance you'll be healthy enough to go to Ohio this summer? I'm planning on attending and probably giving up bike riding so a bike wreck won't keep me out this year! :D It was recommended by my first physical therapist, Skippy Mattson, a Masters breaststroker that I don't even start kicking breaststroke until six months out from surgery. Once I decided to have surgery and learned of the timeline required to be back 100%, I decided right then and there to not go to any Nationals in 2015 including the National Senior Games that I had planned on competing at in July. It's going to be a lot of trial and error in my training. Although I am back to kicking other strokes, right now my still-not-100%-healed hip flexor is telling me that I better take it slow. 2,000 yards without the pull buoy was fine, but when I tried to increase yardage and/or intensity, that ol' familiar hip flexor pain returned. :censor: The pull buoy is back out of the bag again, and I'm needing to alternate swimming and pulling when my leg gets fatigued. I've been told it's going to take awhile to get completely past this, so it wouldn't give me enough time to train for Nationals this year. At this point, I'm planning on Greensboro.