Signs You Are a Recovering Swimmer

RE: Signs You Are a Recovering Swimmer

SLOmmafan — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:31:21 GMT

There is nothing quite like the food consumption frenzy that surrounds age group competition (I.e. USA Swimming). Pasta feeds the night before a meet, baked potatoes and pizza from the concession stands - not to mention about 1/2 gallon of Gatorade.

RE: Signs You Are a Recovering Swimmer

SLOmmafan — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:30:42 GMT

RE: Signs You Are a Recovering Swimmer

Katherine Neustadt — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 03:19:17 GMT

I think it really means signs you're a recovering performance/competitive swimmer. Taking 10 years to learn how to eat like a normal person (eg one that doesn't burn 5,000 calories before breakfast) sounds about right. And I can certainly relate to not know that my natural hair colour isn't actually all that blond. However, avoiding Masters swimming is (of course) simply falling off the bandwagon and swimming is *still* meditation. And a DQ is still pretty humiliating. Though we can laugh about it more now. And not feel so guilty going for a couple drinks after the meet.:drink:

RE: Signs You Are a Recovering Swimmer

Allen Stark — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:26:05 GMT

I think that USMS members are not the target audience for this. My definition of a "recovering swimmer","I did a hard swim set yesterday,I'll do some easy stuff to day to recover."

RE: Signs You Are a Recovering Swimmer

JanSwim — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:51:35 GMT

“recovering swimmer” = “dry swimaholic”?