I came form California and I'm overweight. In fact I didn't take up swimming until again until I spent 3 years in Arizona. Now, there was a country club pool I could have swam there but I didn't. In fact in my area in Arizona there are public pools or health club pools as just are ready as there was in California. I think that many people back east are probably are into other sports more like figure Skating, in fact a top figure skater name Sasha Cohen went back there to get better coaching and a better facility. Also, just because Long Island isn't into swimming as much as the Pacific region doesn't mean they don't workout. Also, I enjoy indoor pools, something that both California and Arizona lack. The weather is not always rosy in either states. There are sometimes bad rain storms in California in the January or February period and Monsoon conditions in Arizona in the summer. The New Yorkers are a little wiser to built the indoor pools, in Tempe we had rain problems and the 800 was delayed until the next day and the 200 IM relays got cancel. Now back east and in the mid-west where pools are mainly indoors they could have continue on with the meet.
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Let's not talk about swimming time. Many people in California don't workout in swimming or other sports. And just maybe those other states prefer other sports. Figure skating is popular and so is hockey back east. In some parts of California like other little places like Truckee there is not much swimming or other activities since they are small isolated places. And back east they have museums and libraries that are considered better than the west coast. Tara Torres did to go back to New York City. She believes in being in shape and there are other ways besides swimming. And Long Island has one of the best pools in the United States, I don't know if they have as much practice time as your club does, but in USAswimming they beat a lot of teams from California.
Let's not talk about swimming time. Many people in California don't workout in swimming or other sports. And just maybe those other states prefer other sports. Figure skating is popular and so is hockey back east. In some parts of California like other little places like Truckee there is not much swimming or other activities since they are small isolated places. And back east they have museums and libraries that are considered better than the west coast. Tara Torres did to go back to New York City. She believes in being in shape and there are other ways besides swimming. And Long Island has one of the best pools in the United States, I don't know if they have as much practice time as your club does, but in USAswimming they beat a lot of teams from California.
