I have been swimming Masters for two years and am 47 years old. I graduated from high school in 1976 and college in 1980. In South Texas the 45-49 age group has consistently had more swimmers at meets and perhaps the closest competition of any male age group. Why does 45-49 have more swimmers than 40-44 and 50-54, the two neighboring age groups? There are some very fast guys in this age group, who obviously have not taken long breaks (e.g. decades) from swimming. They swim modern breastroke, not legacy breastroke.
Are we 45-49 guys just a demographic phenomenum? Our kids are a certain age, we got a bit fat, and decided to get active again? Or was there a swimmer population bubble in the late 70s and early 80s?
Is this bubble going to follow me when I age up or does some percentage of swimmers retire at 49?
Just an inquiring mind.....
You're in the baby boomer group, a very large population in itself. That age group must have been during the biggest waves of births.
I guess the "free love" push of the early 1960s was really started in the late 1950s.
You're in the baby boomer group, a very large population in itself. That age group must have been during the biggest waves of births.
I guess the "free love" push of the early 1960s was really started in the late 1950s.
