The Fastest Age

Originally posted by dorothyrd Connie, wow, lots of yards. I only manage about 3500 4 times a week. As a fellow late bloomer(started at 38), that has to be good enough. I handle the computers at the age group teams home meets, and we have to travel 2 hours + to get to any decent meets(including Masters), so it take a lot of my time. Nationals is at a really good time because it happens before my son's long course meets start up again. He gets his drivers liscence next week, so that take off another burden of driving him around(just adds the mental one of worry!). I really enjoy the swimming, it just plain makes me feel good, and helps me keep off the 30 pounds I have dropped last year. Yea, it's quite a bit.... I have a lot to learn... Morning are usually my all out workouts (well, it really depends on what the coach calls for) The few extra afternoon workouts are for technique training. When I do mornings, and try to work my cardio really hard, the technique sometimes falls apart, since it's not second nature yet. So I try to make it up by focusing on more drills in the afternoon. Hey, your yardage is nothing to sneeze at, you know. When I first strted this, just this last July, I could barely do a 1000m workout, and every second or third day I had to take a really easy day because I was completely wiped out from two 1500M workouts in two days. :p Are you going to come to the masters nationals? That would be very cool. Two hours.. that's a long drive! I gather that kids have a lot more meets than us masters too. Lot of work! I'm amazed you can find time to swim yourself.

Originally posted by dorothyrd Connie, wow, lots of yards. I only manage about 3500 4 times a week. As a fellow late bloomer(started at 38), that has to be good enough. I handle the computers at the age group teams home meets, and we have to travel 2 hours + to get to any decent meets(including Masters), so it take a lot of my time. Nationals is at a really good time because it happens before my son's long course meets start up again. He gets his drivers liscence next week, so that take off another burden of driving him around(just adds the mental one of worry!). I really enjoy the swimming, it just plain makes me feel good, and helps me keep off the 30 pounds I have dropped last year. Yea, it's quite a bit.... I have a lot to learn... Morning are usually my all out workouts (well, it really depends on what the coach calls for) The few extra afternoon workouts are for technique training. When I do mornings, and try to work my cardio really hard, the technique sometimes falls apart, since it's not second nature yet. So I try to make it up by focusing on more drills in the afternoon. Hey, your yardage is nothing to sneeze at, you know. When I first strted this, just this last July, I could barely do a 1000m workout, and every second or third day I had to take a really easy day because I was completely wiped out from two 1500M workouts in two days. :p Are you going to come to the masters nationals? That would be very cool. Two hours.. that's a long drive! I gather that kids have a lot more meets than us masters too. Lot of work! I'm amazed you can find time to swim yourself.