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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I started swimming at 38 and did it to give me another form of exercise, now at 42 I have competed at a couple of meets, and I agree, the women in this age group and the next are insanely fast. At the GRIN classic I looked down the line of women in my heat and they all seemed 6 foot tall, slim and strong, and my thought was, "Do any of these women have children?" . So yes everytime I feel like I am doing pretty good passing the old lady sidestrokers in the pool I just have to look at the times on this website to know that I have a long way to go, AND will probably never get there. I do think to set those type of times, being an one-time age group swimmer is a must(I know I sound like Ion and he started swimming a whole lot sooner than I).
I don't begrudge the times, I just know I will never ever qualify for Nationals. I will probably do a meet here and there for the fun and to give myself a challenge to train for. It is more motivating to swim when you have an event to gear up for.
I started swimming at 38 and did it to give me another form of exercise, now at 42 I have competed at a couple of meets, and I agree, the women in this age group and the next are insanely fast. At the GRIN classic I looked down the line of women in my heat and they all seemed 6 foot tall, slim and strong, and my thought was, "Do any of these women have children?" . So yes everytime I feel like I am doing pretty good passing the old lady sidestrokers in the pool I just have to look at the times on this website to know that I have a long way to go, AND will probably never get there. I do think to set those type of times, being an one-time age group swimmer is a must(I know I sound like Ion and he started swimming a whole lot sooner than I).
I don't begrudge the times, I just know I will never ever qualify for Nationals. I will probably do a meet here and there for the fun and to give myself a challenge to train for. It is more motivating to swim when you have an event to gear up for.
