After the I.M. thread and watching my daughter at her meet I got to wondering if being good at certain strokes has anything to do with heredity. If you read the I.M. thread you know that I am terrible at the breaststroke. Today my daughter had to do the 100 I.M. She was second after the fly and doing the backstroke. She had at least a 1/4 of a pool length on the two swimmers behind her. All the parents around me were commenting on how good she looked. I told them to wait and see what happens on the breaststroke. What do you know the two swimmers behind her caught her and past her on the breaststroke. She dropped down to fourth place. Is she destined to be a terrible breaststroker like me? Keep in mind that she has always done lessons at the Y and not with me.
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The next time I see Wayne I will take him up on his statement that a good flyer can be a good breastroker. I can swim a 200 yd fly in about 2:08, but was *very* pleased when I managed to finish a 200 *** in less than 3:00 (and this was *not* "somewhere between 0 minutes and 3 minutes" -- more like 2:59.5). I am closer to the Piersol body type (than I am, say, to Wayne's body type), if it does make any difference.
The next time I see Wayne I will take him up on his statement that a good flyer can be a good breastroker. I can swim a 200 yd fly in about 2:08, but was *very* pleased when I managed to finish a 200 *** in less than 3:00 (and this was *not* "somewhere between 0 minutes and 3 minutes" -- more like 2:59.5). I am closer to the Piersol body type (than I am, say, to Wayne's body type), if it does make any difference.
