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.
Going for records is not the reason to swim - they always get broken. I swim so that I can eat & drink whatever I like.
Ian.
Sigh, a true soulmate. :wine:
Isobel: Most mortal people, except the most extraordinarily talented, cannot do everything. Speaking for the women, I believe the ones landing in the top ten either: (1) work part time non-seriously and train whenever they can and while kidlets are in school; (2) do not work and train like mad; or (3) do not have kids and train when not working. I do not believe there is a woman who is a full time CEO of a corporation/uber serious career woman with multiple children holding WRs or regularly making top ten. But I could be wrong. Something has to give. For me, flexibility is key. I train at wildly varying times depending on the fam's schedule.
Going for records is not the reason to swim - they always get broken. I swim so that I can eat & drink whatever I like.
Ian.
Sigh, a true soulmate. :wine:
Isobel: Most mortal people, except the most extraordinarily talented, cannot do everything. Speaking for the women, I believe the ones landing in the top ten either: (1) work part time non-seriously and train whenever they can and while kidlets are in school; (2) do not work and train like mad; or (3) do not have kids and train when not working. I do not believe there is a woman who is a full time CEO of a corporation/uber serious career woman with multiple children holding WRs or regularly making top ten. But I could be wrong. Something has to give. For me, flexibility is key. I train at wildly varying times depending on the fam's schedule.
