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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Originally posted by swimpastor
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.
My story is somewhat the same. I quit swimming when I was 16 years old. I swam on a summer team,only two months a year on a club team. My high school had no team, or a pool for that matter. I was very discurraged because i was not getting better. To make a long story short, I had my son at our local college for swimming lessons and saw a coach teaching some kids, around 7-8 years old, how to start. As soon as I saw this, I knew I needed to swim competition again, and a year after I started, I don't regret it one minute.:D
Originally posted by swimpastor
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.
My story is somewhat the same. I quit swimming when I was 16 years old. I swam on a summer team,only two months a year on a club team. My high school had no team, or a pool for that matter. I was very discurraged because i was not getting better. To make a long story short, I had my son at our local college for swimming lessons and saw a coach teaching some kids, around 7-8 years old, how to start. As soon as I saw this, I knew I needed to swim competition again, and a year after I started, I don't regret it one minute.:D
