The Fastest Age

Summer league counts, hahahaha, apparently no one has seen summer league around here. You cannot get into the water until the second week of June. Then 75% of the kids won't swim because the water is still 75 degrees and they turn blue. The extent of the practice is about 1000-2000 yards of which much of it is do whatever you want this is summer club, we have fun(which is exactly why my daughter loves it!). The week of tapering begins after 4th of July and consists of sharks and minnows and jumping off the diving board. This total yardage done for the season is about the same as 1 week of Ion's training! Ian, I knew Amanda had recently been pretty impressive, but wasn't there a time after the 1996 Olympics when she went through a growth spurt and she struggled to maintain her times? I think that is common with girls, and as Amanda has now shown, if you stick with it, you can get to the other side and start doing well again. If I am wrong, forgive me, my memory is failing, I am in the dreaded 40-44 age group of fast VO2 swimmers who were former age group swimmers, and I am not one of them!( Sorry Ion, couldn't resist a little ribbing, don't know if you have a sense of humor or not, but I do, it keeps me sane and I have to blame my bad memory on something!)

Summer league counts, hahahaha, apparently no one has seen summer league around here. You cannot get into the water until the second week of June. Then 75% of the kids won't swim because the water is still 75 degrees and they turn blue. The extent of the practice is about 1000-2000 yards of which much of it is do whatever you want this is summer club, we have fun(which is exactly why my daughter loves it!). The week of tapering begins after 4th of July and consists of sharks and minnows and jumping off the diving board. This total yardage done for the season is about the same as 1 week of Ion's training! Ian, I knew Amanda had recently been pretty impressive, but wasn't there a time after the 1996 Olympics when she went through a growth spurt and she struggled to maintain her times? I think that is common with girls, and as Amanda has now shown, if you stick with it, you can get to the other side and start doing well again. If I am wrong, forgive me, my memory is failing, I am in the dreaded 40-44 age group of fast VO2 swimmers who were former age group swimmers, and I am not one of them!( Sorry Ion, couldn't resist a little ribbing, don't know if you have a sense of humor or not, but I do, it keeps me sane and I have to blame my bad memory on something!)