A non-scientific survey on masters swimming experience(s). If you would like to participate, please answer the following: :)
1. # years of masters swimming
2. age started masters swimming
3. # years of age group experience, if applicable
4. age started age group swimming, if applicable
5. best masters event
6. favorite masters event
7. most hated masters event
I guess I'll go first:
1. 1 year
2. 44 years old
3. 9 years experience, including some collegiate/abrupt halt due to rotator cuff
4. 11 years old (year round stuff)
5. 50 back
6. 50 fly/100 IM
7. 1500/distance free (I hate it even more than breaststroke)
Parents
Former Member
1. # years of masters swimming: 10
2. age started masters swimming: 23
3. # years of age group experience, if applicable: Never swam on an age-group team (but started on my middle-school team at age 12 for 3 years, then swam 2 1/2 years in high-school, and 4 years collegiate)
4. age started age group swimming, if applicable: N/A
5. best masters event: 400 im
6. favorite masters event: 200 fly (nothing feels quite as good as back-siding it and taking out the field in the last 50)
7. most hated masters event: 200 fly (nothing sucks more than taking it out too hard, and getting overtaken in the last 50!)
1. # years of masters swimming: 10
2. age started masters swimming: 23
3. # years of age group experience, if applicable: Never swam on an age-group team (but started on my middle-school team at age 12 for 3 years, then swam 2 1/2 years in high-school, and 4 years collegiate)
4. age started age group swimming, if applicable: N/A
5. best masters event: 400 im
6. favorite masters event: 200 fly (nothing feels quite as good as back-siding it and taking out the field in the last 50)
7. most hated masters event: 200 fly (nothing sucks more than taking it out too hard, and getting overtaken in the last 50!)
