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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Originally posted by Ion Beza
New York City didn't open the Olympic bid for me -wanting to exercise every day like I do it in San Diego- or for people like me.
They opened the Olympic bid firstly for profiteering television networks based in New York, secondly for athletes and spectators who go to the Olympics:
like in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, this means dedicating transportation to Olympic venues during the Olympic Games only, transportation that is not in the ordinary New York lifestyle.
Actually, the city (first Mayor Giuliani and now Mayor Bloomberg) is promoting the bid as a way to get private money to finance new sports facilities -- mostly a new stadium for football and baseball, but also a new aquatics center in Queens and other facilities.
The transportaion plan calls for the athletes to use exactly the same public transportation as New Yorkers use (the Long Island Railroad, NJTransit, the subway and ferry boats). The ONLY difference is that cars or boats will be reserved.
By the way, it may have escaped your attention while you were here, but Tenafly, Fort Lee and Morristown are not in New York City or even New York State. When you cross the river you go into a whole different state.
Originally posted by Ion Beza
New York City didn't open the Olympic bid for me -wanting to exercise every day like I do it in San Diego- or for people like me.
They opened the Olympic bid firstly for profiteering television networks based in New York, secondly for athletes and spectators who go to the Olympics:
like in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, this means dedicating transportation to Olympic venues during the Olympic Games only, transportation that is not in the ordinary New York lifestyle.
Actually, the city (first Mayor Giuliani and now Mayor Bloomberg) is promoting the bid as a way to get private money to finance new sports facilities -- mostly a new stadium for football and baseball, but also a new aquatics center in Queens and other facilities.
The transportaion plan calls for the athletes to use exactly the same public transportation as New Yorkers use (the Long Island Railroad, NJTransit, the subway and ferry boats). The ONLY difference is that cars or boats will be reserved.
By the way, it may have escaped your attention while you were here, but Tenafly, Fort Lee and Morristown are not in New York City or even New York State. When you cross the river you go into a whole different state.
