Race Club Article

I really wondered why the article appeared. It, at first, seemed to me to have a very negative messafge hidden under a seemingly positive facade. When I was younger (the early 70s) everyone started swimming great distances in practice. Then as the season got into the third week in high school, some did less, some did more. When I first went to college, we all swam a lot (it was a small div III college). Now I swim about the same amount as then. The age groupers who I see at the Y where I swim seem to me not to swim enough. They work on starts and sprinting every day for at least 20 minutes. Some are really strong. That seems to me to be too much time for starts. But they seem to win. Those kids get to high school and do really well for our area (in western Illinois, basketball rules). The girls have sort of slacked recently but the boys have been undefeated in conference for 3 1/2 yrs. However, not many go to state- 2 or 3 boys. How many yards to swim is such a big, cloudy area. The boys high school coach is really rougfh. The girls coach is also the head coach of age groupers. Aso, many of the guys in high school are built like typical swimmers. I'm not sure what is the perfect body type. I'm very tall and thin. Bu many of the guys I used to swim with were much shorlter and muscular. Inthe age groupers there are many very over weightboys. thius really shocks me becasue they are really "fat." Not until recently did I ever se so many overweight young boys swimming. One boy is huge and a distance swimmer. He seems to me to be doing really well. I'm sure that he is about 5ft 6 in ansd well over 2oo pounds. Who knows?

I really wondered why the article appeared. It, at first, seemed to me to have a very negative messafge hidden under a seemingly positive facade. When I was younger (the early 70s) everyone started swimming great distances in practice. Then as the season got into the third week in high school, some did less, some did more. When I first went to college, we all swam a lot (it was a small div III college). Now I swim about the same amount as then. The age groupers who I see at the Y where I swim seem to me not to swim enough. They work on starts and sprinting every day for at least 20 minutes. Some are really strong. That seems to me to be too much time for starts. But they seem to win. Those kids get to high school and do really well for our area (in western Illinois, basketball rules). The girls have sort of slacked recently but the boys have been undefeated in conference for 3 1/2 yrs. However, not many go to state- 2 or 3 boys. How many yards to swim is such a big, cloudy area. The boys high school coach is really rougfh. The girls coach is also the head coach of age groupers. Aso, many of the guys in high school are built like typical swimmers. I'm not sure what is the perfect body type. I'm very tall and thin. Bu many of the guys I used to swim with were much shorlter and muscular. Inthe age groupers there are many very over weightboys. thius really shocks me becasue they are really "fat." Not until recently did I ever se so many overweight young boys swimming. One boy is huge and a distance swimmer. He seems to me to be doing really well. I'm sure that he is about 5ft 6 in ansd well over 2oo pounds. Who knows?