My team, Rockwall Aquatic Masters is having a long course meet on 6th July and I am actively trying to convince team mates to sign up. On my blog I was describing my disappointment that more of my team mates had not signed up. One commenter posted the following, "Why do they have to participate? I have more fun going to practice than I do meets. I don't find meets fun anymore." I guess I had assumed that most people enjoy meets and I found it strange that my team mates did not want to sign up. This got me thinking and I wondered why people compete or don't compete? Any thoughts?
My biggest hang up is the social aspect.
Mine too, but for different reasons. I'm not the most outgoing person around people I don't know, so swim meets tend to be fairly boring for me. I swim, wander back to my stuff and read. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not real big on chattering about swimming minutiae either ("I sucked on my 50 free start", "do you think the water's too warm?", "I don't think I'm catching the water well at the start of my stroke", ...), so the most obvious conversation starter isn't really there.
My biggest hang up is the social aspect.
Mine too, but for different reasons. I'm not the most outgoing person around people I don't know, so swim meets tend to be fairly boring for me. I swim, wander back to my stuff and read. Lather, rinse, repeat. I'm not real big on chattering about swimming minutiae either ("I sucked on my 50 free start", "do you think the water's too warm?", "I don't think I'm catching the water well at the start of my stroke", ...), so the most obvious conversation starter isn't really there.
