Can we really go back in time??

I started swimming at 12 on a summer league when we moved to California. I was really good for the league by the time I was 14. I swam in highschool and on summer leagues until I was 18. I was a mediocre high school swimmer (competing against kids who swam year-round). I did however place ninth in state in the 100 breaststroke in New Mexico (all the girls who beat me swam year round) (that and our first place medly relay that year were my claim to high school fame:rofl: ). Speed forward 25 years and I start swimming again (October 2006). Instead of a bunch of summer league and high school swimmers crammed into a 6 or 8 lane 25 yard pool with me and with one coach for all of us, I now have a coach that I only have to share with two to five other swimmers (we each get our own lane). There are days when I am the only one at practice (like today) and boy do I get coached!!!!! He worked me really hard this morning (endorphines lasted until noon:groovy: )(we are engine building for LC nationals in August). Anyway, despite the fact that I only swim 3 days a week with the coach and maybe one weekend day by myself, I feel that I am getting exceptional technique instruction as well as conditioning. I am very tall with a muscular build and despite my telling him that I am a breaststroker and the fact that he could see that I could not swim butterfly if my life depended on it, at the end of January, he told me I was a butterflyer :laugh2: . Since then, he has worked with me doing drills and practicing, and though I always detested butterfly, I can now do a decent 50 meters of it without my stroke falling apart:applaud:. I have a meet June 10th to try to get qualifying times for nationals, and will enter my first ever butterfly event (50 meter) then :banana: . Long story short, I think we can go back in time and maybe be even better than we were if conditions change (for the better). Great Coach (1980 Olympic Team (the year the US did not play)), Coach focusing on me and maybe a few other swimmers, not a pool full of swimmers, adult focus and desire to improve. I won't really know my times or if I have improved since high school until June, but I am optimistic, mostly from the encouragement I am getting from him. I am the only swimmer from my team swimming in the meet, but the coach is preparing me with the meet in mind (the rest of the team gets to do my workout and taper) :) .

I started swimming at 12 on a summer league when we moved to California. I was really good for the league by the time I was 14. I swam in highschool and on summer leagues until I was 18. I was a mediocre high school swimmer (competing against kids who swam year-round). I did however place ninth in state in the 100 breaststroke in New Mexico (all the girls who beat me swam year round) (that and our first place medly relay that year were my claim to high school fame:rofl: ). Speed forward 25 years and I start swimming again (October 2006). Instead of a bunch of summer league and high school swimmers crammed into a 6 or 8 lane 25 yard pool with me and with one coach for all of us, I now have a coach that I only have to share with two to five other swimmers (we each get our own lane). There are days when I am the only one at practice (like today) and boy do I get coached!!!!! He worked me really hard this morning (endorphines lasted until noon:groovy: )(we are engine building for LC nationals in August). Anyway, despite the fact that I only swim 3 days a week with the coach and maybe one weekend day by myself, I feel that I am getting exceptional technique instruction as well as conditioning. I am very tall with a muscular build and despite my telling him that I am a breaststroker and the fact that he could see that I could not swim butterfly if my life depended on it, at the end of January, he told me I was a butterflyer :laugh2: . Since then, he has worked with me doing drills and practicing, and though I always detested butterfly, I can now do a decent 50 meters of it without my stroke falling apart:applaud:. I have a meet June 10th to try to get qualifying times for nationals, and will enter my first ever butterfly event (50 meter) then :banana: . Long story short, I think we can go back in time and maybe be even better than we were if conditions change (for the better). Great Coach (1980 Olympic Team (the year the US did not play)), Coach focusing on me and maybe a few other swimmers, not a pool full of swimmers, adult focus and desire to improve. I won't really know my times or if I have improved since high school until June, but I am optimistic, mostly from the encouragement I am getting from him. I am the only swimmer from my team swimming in the meet, but the coach is preparing me with the meet in mind (the rest of the team gets to do my workout and taper) :) .