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 too left swimming after my senior year. I only got back into it because my son(then 9) decided he wanted to swim and when I told the coach I swam b4, he coaxed me into coming to a masters practice. That all started it. I'll be back in swimming 1 year come this Dec and absolutely love it. I love meets and just want to see how close I could come to my best times in high school. I'm a little off but getting closer.....I always have the excuse that I'm 18 years older now so that makes me feel good.
I too left swimming after my senior year. I only got back into it because my son(then 9) decided he wanted to swim and when I told the coach I swam b4, he coaxed me into coming to a masters practice. That all started it. I'll be back in swimming 1 year come this Dec and absolutely love it. I love meets and just want to see how close I could come to my best times in high school. I'm a little off but getting closer.....I always have the excuse that I'm 18 years older now so that makes me feel good.
