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.
Hahaha. That's it! I hereby declare that the one and only reason I am halfway decent is because of my fins and monofin.
Nothing wrong with that. I don't use fins because I'd be hauling them on my bike, they take skin off my toes (necessitating socks, just another thing to haul around), and my achilles tendons hurt after using them. I do enjoy moving faster with fins, but it isn't worth the trouble.
Enough of that, back to making fun of rec swimmers, like the one who wears fins all the time but barely kicks. Or the misguided soul I spotted the other day doing breaststroke with fins, which would have worked fine if she had been substituting dolphin kick... but no. Whip kick with fins, epic fail. :shakeshead:
Hahaha. That's it! I hereby declare that the one and only reason I am halfway decent is because of my fins and monofin.
Nothing wrong with that. I don't use fins because I'd be hauling them on my bike, they take skin off my toes (necessitating socks, just another thing to haul around), and my achilles tendons hurt after using them. I do enjoy moving faster with fins, but it isn't worth the trouble.
Enough of that, back to making fun of rec swimmers, like the one who wears fins all the time but barely kicks. Or the misguided soul I spotted the other day doing breaststroke with fins, which would have worked fine if she had been substituting dolphin kick... but no. Whip kick with fins, epic fail. :shakeshead:
