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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Getting back to the original thread, I have to add that in the pool ALL are swimmers, whether we get out and go to work or for a bike ride afterwards. If someone wants to work on their swimming and happen to also race biking and running I say come on in the water's fine. Also I really don't care if they do all freestyle while I swim the practice the coach designed for me, if everyone is paying for the coach on deck then they don't swim the specially designed practice, I really don't care. So long as they aren't interfering with my practice. It is probably frustrating for the on-deck coach to have people doing their own thing while he or she has a particular goal in mind for the day. It would be up to the coach to modify the "Go your own way" behavior.
Getting back to the original thread, I have to add that in the pool ALL are swimmers, whether we get out and go to work or for a bike ride afterwards. If someone wants to work on their swimming and happen to also race biking and running I say come on in the water's fine. Also I really don't care if they do all freestyle while I swim the practice the coach designed for me, if everyone is paying for the coach on deck then they don't swim the specially designed practice, I really don't care. So long as they aren't interfering with my practice. It is probably frustrating for the on-deck coach to have people doing their own thing while he or she has a particular goal in mind for the day. It would be up to the coach to modify the "Go your own way" behavior.
