Are Triathletes worth the dues they pay toward Masters Swimming?
I say we force all Triathletes to spend one day a week in the sprint lane, one day a week doing stroke (i.e. IM) work, and then make them focus on their starts and turns.
This invasion needs to be controlled.... :-)
John Smith
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You get out of the sport (and USMS in particular) what you put into it. The many triathletes and fitness swimmers are not interested in anything more than going to the pool for exercise, then going home, or to the next practice.
They may not see what USMS does for them, but only because they don't realize that without USMS, there would be precious few places open for them to train. USMS could be the reason that Triathlons even exist (USMS has been around since 1970). No age group teams would allow the shenanigans triathletes are accused of on this forum.
There are very few (if any) pure tri folk or fitness swimmers trying to open pool time or running workouts or volunteering their time to make USMS run. That doesn't happen automatically. As I inferred in an earlier post, They pay the bills, the competitive swimmers run the show (because someone has to). It is a mutually beneficial symbiosis, even if some do not appreciate it.
You get out of the sport (and USMS in particular) what you put into it. The many triathletes and fitness swimmers are not interested in anything more than going to the pool for exercise, then going home, or to the next practice.
They may not see what USMS does for them, but only because they don't realize that without USMS, there would be precious few places open for them to train. USMS could be the reason that Triathlons even exist (USMS has been around since 1970). No age group teams would allow the shenanigans triathletes are accused of on this forum.
There are very few (if any) pure tri folk or fitness swimmers trying to open pool time or running workouts or volunteering their time to make USMS run. That doesn't happen automatically. As I inferred in an earlier post, They pay the bills, the competitive swimmers run the show (because someone has to). It is a mutually beneficial symbiosis, even if some do not appreciate it.
