I have just recently decided to become dually affiliated with both the USS and USMS (i.e. I am now registered with both organizations). I did this primarily so that I could swim for our local agegroup team at meets in the 17 and over age group. The main advantage for me will be that I can now attend a much larger number of swimming events per season while not having to travel nearly as far to attend swim meets. Since most of the USS meets I will be attending are going to be in Memphis, I can now travel home after each day and return the next day without having to spend the night in a hotel....Also I will be burning a lot less gas getting to the nearby USS meets than I would traveling to USMS meets (even the ones that are the closest to where I live). If you have the same kind of situation in regards to traveling long distances to attend USMS meets and spending too much on traveling expenses, then perhaps you can benefit also from attending USS meets as well?? Also I don't think you necessarily have to be dually affiliated to attend these USS meets?.....(but I'm not really sure how that works to be honest).....I noticed that several other USMS swimmers have attended USS meets before. My first USS meet will be on October 15 and 16. I know I will probably get smoked by a lot of young fast swimmers....but I am still looking forward to the experience none-the-less. If anyone else has ever swam at a USS meet before while also registered as a masters swimmer with the USMS, please share your experience with me/us....How many of y'all are also dually affiliated?
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. I intended on posting a poll for this thread as well to see how many other USMS swimmers have ever attended a USS sanctioned meet....but I'm not sure if I submitted it correctly...so the poll may not actually accompany this posting??
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BillS,
I would definitely be up for grabbing a few beers sometime.....Maybe we will run into one another at a Nationals sometime down the road? I don't think I will be traveling up to the Pacific Northwest anytime soon though.
As far as just getting back into swimming at the age of 44......I think it will just take a little while before you work your way back into decent shape again......I've had a similar experience last year when I was just starting back after an 18 year layoff. I am 41 now and into my second year of Masters swimming and I can say that there seems to be a major difference between the first year back and the second year back.....When I first started back (about 18 months ago) I couldn't hardly swim a 50 free in under 45 seconds....and I couldn't swim 500 yards straight without stopping along the way to hug the wall and pant for a couple of minutes before I could continue on.....I didn't just jump directly from that to swimming 7 - 10 thousand meters a day ....or anything like that....I eventually worked up to about 3000 - 4000 meter workouts at a time after 6 to 8 months of swimming again.....and even then, I couldn't maintain any kind of fast interval training at all....In fact I'm still far from making really fast interval sets....Swimming with the teenagers on our agegroup team has forced me to make drastic improvements in that area though .....and so I am still slowly getting there (I hope?!). Just keep plugging away and you will be suprised this time next year at how far you've come!
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. Good Luck at your meet....The 200 *** won't be as bad as you think I bet.
BillS,
I would definitely be up for grabbing a few beers sometime.....Maybe we will run into one another at a Nationals sometime down the road? I don't think I will be traveling up to the Pacific Northwest anytime soon though.
As far as just getting back into swimming at the age of 44......I think it will just take a little while before you work your way back into decent shape again......I've had a similar experience last year when I was just starting back after an 18 year layoff. I am 41 now and into my second year of Masters swimming and I can say that there seems to be a major difference between the first year back and the second year back.....When I first started back (about 18 months ago) I couldn't hardly swim a 50 free in under 45 seconds....and I couldn't swim 500 yards straight without stopping along the way to hug the wall and pant for a couple of minutes before I could continue on.....I didn't just jump directly from that to swimming 7 - 10 thousand meters a day ....or anything like that....I eventually worked up to about 3000 - 4000 meter workouts at a time after 6 to 8 months of swimming again.....and even then, I couldn't maintain any kind of fast interval training at all....In fact I'm still far from making really fast interval sets....Swimming with the teenagers on our agegroup team has forced me to make drastic improvements in that area though .....and so I am still slowly getting there (I hope?!). Just keep plugging away and you will be suprised this time next year at how far you've come!
Newmastersswimmer
p.s. Good Luck at your meet....The 200 *** won't be as bad as you think I bet.
