I feel a little like our old friend Ion Beza. He always complains about the age groups that he swam in and how unfair it is. Anyway, I saw the NT's for my age group and in the 100's there were 2 second drops from last year and in the 200's 4 seconds drop. Anyway, it drives home on how medicroe I am and worst in my middle age than my youth. Granted, I can swim butterfly better than last year but the best stroke breaststroke hasn't improved since last summer. Anyone else feel the same way. I know that in your middle years swimming should be more of an exercise and I don't want the shoulder operations or knee prpblems that some master swimmers had.
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when I first came back to swimming this past spring, the motivation was to recover from a cycling accident, and have a replacement for running. Swim meets were going to replace running races. There was one meet that I did, and that has been it. And, I'm back running (praise the Lord!). So, swimming did help me rehab, and was a great substitute. Now I'm training for a half ironman that takes place in August...obviously swimming will be a big piece of it.
So, my answer is it has been for both exercise and a little competition.
Happy New Year!
jerrycat
when I first came back to swimming this past spring, the motivation was to recover from a cycling accident, and have a replacement for running. Swim meets were going to replace running races. There was one meet that I did, and that has been it. And, I'm back running (praise the Lord!). So, swimming did help me rehab, and was a great substitute. Now I'm training for a half ironman that takes place in August...obviously swimming will be a big piece of it.
So, my answer is it has been for both exercise and a little competition.
Happy New Year!
jerrycat
