Is Swimming Eating Its Young?

I don't know any swimmers with red hair ... Zing. :lolup: Men are more smart alecky . I don't have red hair. But I like it on my avatar. She looks quite comely. And her hair doesn't appear to have chlorine damage. :banana: I dont know any marathoners that wear capes when they run or swim ...:rofl: My young ones are still alive. At the moment. My 14 year old son is being real smart alecky and bugging the **** out of me. I may have to get huffy. Maybe I'll have my smart alecky husband get huffy ...

I was lifting weights and doing more yardage, more than the other kids. Hard work in physical strength, stroke technique, and aerobic conditioning did pay off. And if children today have a dream to see how far their swimming can take them, then they should pursue that. Being able to pay a physical price in effort to obtain a dream is a good thing. I never suffered burnout even given all the hard work I put into the sport. But no one pushed me but myself. :groovy:Donna I'm quoting Donna just to get back on topic here and because she's smart-alecky. I mean a smarty pants. I hope my kid has the kind of determination quoted above because "I have a dream" they will stay out of trouble and not be doing too much of this :drink: or I will be :frustrated: . As an aside, I think most swimmers get pretty darn good grades despite all that practicing.

Actually, I would rather do a short distances IM set, or a set of ~200s or less free working on speed pacing rahter than do 300s, 400s, 500s... not that I don't mind doing the occasional 500 during a practice or anything... As for the monotonousness, some weeks I just want do do something other than get in a pool, you know?:banana:

Actually, I would rather do a short distances IM set, or a set of ~200s or less free working on speed pacing rahter than do 300s, 400s, 500s... not that I don't mind doing the occasional 500 during a practice or anything... As for the monotonousness, some weeks I just want do do something other than get in a pool, you know?:banana: Amen to that. I'm going to life weights now. :dedhorse: :dedhorse: :D

It kept me away from "boys." This was the one thing I chose not to participate in: puppy love until I met my goals. I never kiss and tell.Donna Ha, it only worked for a little while though! Then someone else ratted you out. :rofl: :dedhorse:

I'm told that a double dose of accelerade and 2 excederin with caffeine is good for hangovers. (See how short my posts are getting? (If they were as long as others, I'd be at 5,000 by now.) Love is a many hangover thing ....

Fortress, Smarty-pants is good. My mom was thrilled that I found swimming and devoted my body and soul to it because it kept me away from "boys." This was the one thing I chose not to participate in: puppy love until I met my goals. My parents were thrilled; to them this made me the golden one (HA, if they only knew what us swimmers got into, but I never kiss and tell.) It has been mentioned to me by other swimmers that we can be quite the party or rowdy crowd. :dunno:what? little ole us? Donna My daughters swimming group right now is about 10-1 boys to girls. Not sure how that happened, but it sure is not keeping her from boys.....and she has wayyyyy too much fun.

Love is a many hangover thing .... i feel a song coming on... I drank till I Stumbled I drank till i fell When The drunk part was over it hurt me like hell now i know about drinkin so i know one things true bein drunk's a lot like lovin you God Bless Kenny Chesney!:groovy:

Not me, Santa. :rofl: I only get huffy when someone insults my user name or my fly technique. :rofl: Now, if someone insults my avatar, I might get really cross ... In my examined reading of the fine purple prose on this forum, however, I think men may be huffy too. I don't know any swimmers with red hair ... Zing. :lolup: Men are more smart alecky than huffy, but I will admit that I am generalizing and there are notable exceptions here on this forum. Isn't the failure to be either huffy, smart alecky or humorous very un-forumish? My young was eaten today by a super tough 2 hour workout.

Sprinter Girl, I spent my first two years in HS in Newark, NJ then we moved to Westfield, NJ a town of maybe 25,000 at the time. Westfield was maybe 20 minutes from Newark and considered the suburbs. We moved there because of swimming. Swimming was big in Westifeld. Some of my teammates swam age group and thru college. I never even heard of age group swimming until we moved to Westfield at age 15. We trained from mid November to March when we had the state meet - that was it. No weight training, no year round, no summer (and no goggles). I suspect we may have even been better if we had gone year round but I probably wouldn't be swimming and with so much joy today. Glenn Gruber:)