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 knelson
One reason I compete is it keeps me going. If I don't have a meet to train for down the road I find myself coming up with a lot of excuses and skipping workouts. I'm sure there are people out there who have the willpower to swim consistently without ever competing, but I guess I'm not one of them!
I'm a fitness swimmer, but I'm gonna start competing next year probably. I've motivated myself without having a meet to go to and just kept going. But as I began to think about it, I got sick of swimming for just fitness. I've proved to myself that I'm a good (well, decent) swimmer, now I'm ready to prove it to everybody else! That's why I'm competing!
~Kyra
Originally posted by knelson
One reason I compete is it keeps me going. If I don't have a meet to train for down the road I find myself coming up with a lot of excuses and skipping workouts. I'm sure there are people out there who have the willpower to swim consistently without ever competing, but I guess I'm not one of them!
I'm a fitness swimmer, but I'm gonna start competing next year probably. I've motivated myself without having a meet to go to and just kept going. But as I began to think about it, I got sick of swimming for just fitness. I've proved to myself that I'm a good (well, decent) swimmer, now I'm ready to prove it to everybody else! That's why I'm competing!
~Kyra
