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 swim for the health benefits and the stress outlet. That being said, I would get bored if I just swam 3 or four days a week. The competion serves as a goal. I train for specific events and meets which gives me more motivation for practice.
I can't make the NQT's in any of my events. What I can do is compete to improve my times or swim a new challenging event like the 400 IM.
If I keep swimming and keep a positive outlook on life, I'll make the NQT's when I'm in the 80-84 group.
Michael
I swim for the health benefits and the stress outlet. That being said, I would get bored if I just swam 3 or four days a week. The competion serves as a goal. I train for specific events and meets which gives me more motivation for practice.
I can't make the NQT's in any of my events. What I can do is compete to improve my times or swim a new challenging event like the 400 IM.
If I keep swimming and keep a positive outlook on life, I'll make the NQT's when I'm in the 80-84 group.
Michael
