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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Well, yes. New York still has a ways to go before it matches California's athletic facilities; one reason many New Yorkers are hoping to get the Olympics here is that it would be a way to get more facilities built. Nevertheless, there are more than in 1999. (By the way, two MTA bus routes stop directly in front of the entrance to Asphalt Green and three subway lines stop a few blocks away -- I live two blocks away; it isn't in Siberia.)
Well, yes. New York still has a ways to go before it matches California's athletic facilities; one reason many New Yorkers are hoping to get the Olympics here is that it would be a way to get more facilities built. Nevertheless, there are more than in 1999. (By the way, two MTA bus routes stop directly in front of the entrance to Asphalt Green and three subway lines stop a few blocks away -- I live two blocks away; it isn't in Siberia.)
