My heart to swim competitively burned out when I was seventeen - though I swam another year (my senior year in high school). Then 33 years later I got back in the pool, and like many others, discovered that I had a renewed passion to compete. That seems in some ways strange to me, so I've been thinking about why I compete. I've reached the conclusion that I really wasn't done when I left the pool at eighteen - rather, I just needed a breather. (That was one huge oxygen debt!) I wonder if one day I'll be done competing, or if this passion is a lifelong one, like the passion for fitness and health that my swimming serves regardless of whether or not I compete.
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competing is about getting recognition for all the effort you put into yourself, letting the world know you tried hard to be what you are.Also, competition is a great encouragement to do better and better, it is a culmination of all your small and big goals set on your performance through all your work-outs.And finally it is being around people like you, people who share that same passion.
competing is about getting recognition for all the effort you put into yourself, letting the world know you tried hard to be what you are.Also, competition is a great encouragement to do better and better, it is a culmination of all your small and big goals set on your performance through all your work-outs.And finally it is being around people like you, people who share that same passion.
