Looking at one-hour results, and just finishing New England Masters SCY Championships at Harvard, how is it that older swimmers are getting faster and faster, and pretty much everyone is getting faster and faster compared to a few years ago when there seemed to be more mortal swimmers?
What are older (45+ women; at this point 65+ men) swimmers doing that keeps them at such elite levels? Weights? Extensive training? How much of both? How do they have jobs and families and train? The field of fast swimmers is getting deeper and deeper. Anyone have idea as to why?
I want to know the secrets. Are the people who race now self-selecting more and more as elite swimmers? Has everyone swum all their lives? I know to swim hard you have to train hard, but I am baffled by sudden increase in amazing fast times and so many records getting broken.
They must not have met their potential at an earlier age.
That seems fully explanatory.
For "isobel," in addition to technical and technological changes, massive cultural changes have taken place. People now in their fifties -- a nice midpoint in life and in your age range -- were making love not war, growing their own vegetable gardens, making tie-died clothing, protesting, making photo records of domestic activities, and so forth. Their mothers were going back to school in preparation for entering the workforce for the first time. Fathers and neighbors had been in the service. The running phenomenon, tri phenomenon, dirt biking, and the like were, in retrospect, just beginning to take shape on the horizon. :blah:
Regards, VB
They must not have met their potential at an earlier age.
That seems fully explanatory.
For "isobel," in addition to technical and technological changes, massive cultural changes have taken place. People now in their fifties -- a nice midpoint in life and in your age range -- were making love not war, growing their own vegetable gardens, making tie-died clothing, protesting, making photo records of domestic activities, and so forth. Their mothers were going back to school in preparation for entering the workforce for the first time. Fathers and neighbors had been in the service. The running phenomenon, tri phenomenon, dirt biking, and the like were, in retrospect, just beginning to take shape on the horizon. :blah:
Regards, VB
