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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I also quit swimming when I was 18 after my senior year of high school. I wandered through my twenties until a few months ago wondering what was missing. The first practice that I got in the water for in August made me quickly realize that swimming was exactly what was missing. I think I compete for the rush and to have a test of how well my training is going or just to be with a whole bunch of early risers that feel the same as I do!
I also quit swimming when I was 18 after my senior year of high school. I wandered through my twenties until a few months ago wondering what was missing. The first practice that I got in the water for in August made me quickly realize that swimming was exactly what was missing. I think I compete for the rush and to have a test of how well my training is going or just to be with a whole bunch of early risers that feel the same as I do!
