Are shoulder injuries due solely to improper stroke mechanics

Leonard: You racoons are crazy. If you can do this, I'm sure you can do the sprint quadrathon. Quite sure. But how do you do this?! Do I recall you saying you had co-opted your wife to swim in the OW for vacation purposes? Does she ever see you if you are doing that kind of yardage? I suppose that the main point is that we have no kids, so other than work, our time is our own. I telecommute (I'm sitting here in my PJ's as I type this.) and am on total flex hours as well, so unless I have a project deadline, I can make work fit around swimming/wife. The only thing that occasionally interrupts that is a sick horse or stacking hay when it's delivered (we have a horse stabling business on the side), which takes precedence over everything. We also try to mesh things. e.g. I swim while she is giving riding lessons. The worst part has been having to train by myself except for maybe 8000 yards/week with the YMCA masters. I'm not doing MIMS this year, so I probably won't do as much yardage, although who knows - I DO enjoy swimming long workouts (a favorite is 12,000+ yards in 3 hours). Raccoons are determined, or as Dave Barry once wrote about them (concerning being unable to keep food away from them when at camp): "If we ever get serious about the space program, all we need to do is convince raccoons that there is food on Jupiter. They'll find a way to get there." -LBJ

Leonard: You racoons are crazy. If you can do this, I'm sure you can do the sprint quadrathon. Quite sure. But how do you do this?! Do I recall you saying you had co-opted your wife to swim in the OW for vacation purposes? Does she ever see you if you are doing that kind of yardage? I suppose that the main point is that we have no kids, so other than work, our time is our own. I telecommute (I'm sitting here in my PJ's as I type this.) and am on total flex hours as well, so unless I have a project deadline, I can make work fit around swimming/wife. The only thing that occasionally interrupts that is a sick horse or stacking hay when it's delivered (we have a horse stabling business on the side), which takes precedence over everything. We also try to mesh things. e.g. I swim while she is giving riding lessons. The worst part has been having to train by myself except for maybe 8000 yards/week with the YMCA masters. I'm not doing MIMS this year, so I probably won't do as much yardage, although who knows - I DO enjoy swimming long workouts (a favorite is 12,000+ yards in 3 hours). Raccoons are determined, or as Dave Barry once wrote about them (concerning being unable to keep food away from them when at camp): "If we ever get serious about the space program, all we need to do is convince raccoons that there is food on Jupiter. They'll find a way to get there." -LBJ