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.
I feel fat and out of shape too - we only did 5000 today. It was stroke and drill day. :mad::mad:
Only 5000? Except for an occasional longer swim with the HS kids, that's the most I ever do...and *I* get booted off the island by the Smiths? Hmph.
I feel fat and out of shape too - we only did 5000 today. It was stroke and drill day. :mad::mad:
Only 5000? Except for an occasional longer swim with the HS kids, that's the most I ever do...and *I* get booted off the island by the Smiths? Hmph.
