I am curious how many of the posters here swam in high school, college, etc. and how close to the top you got. Thus the following not terribly detailed poll.
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Started sport as a skier aged 17, became an international, then went into triathlon, won national age group champs x 2 with my first time learning to swim frontcrawl - became my strongest discipline but never did much training, just a mile x 3 a week. Won a few senior international triathlons, then as I was based in France turned to cycle racing. I became an international in 2 years and then after another 5 turned a professional cyclist and toured all over the world in various teams including rep. GBR. Got very close to Olympic selections, but didn't get the place. I also did cross-country skiing and won 2 national titles in between the cycling. Retired from full time sport in 2003 - no money and was (and still am) VERY disappointed by the drug culture, hence felt I was having to compete with cheats which ruined the sport for me. Moved to Scotland to get a job, get married, and presently start a family...and now I'm swimming - this is the first time I have put my mind to swimming and presently on a 22:30 pace with 4 months swimming - but this is just training and not done a 'meet' yet! LOVE SWIMMING to bits, but only do it x 3-4 a week to keep hungry to train.
Interesting to read other's backgrounds!
Started sport as a skier aged 17, became an international, then went into triathlon, won national age group champs x 2 with my first time learning to swim frontcrawl - became my strongest discipline but never did much training, just a mile x 3 a week. Won a few senior international triathlons, then as I was based in France turned to cycle racing. I became an international in 2 years and then after another 5 turned a professional cyclist and toured all over the world in various teams including rep. GBR. Got very close to Olympic selections, but didn't get the place. I also did cross-country skiing and won 2 national titles in between the cycling. Retired from full time sport in 2003 - no money and was (and still am) VERY disappointed by the drug culture, hence felt I was having to compete with cheats which ruined the sport for me. Moved to Scotland to get a job, get married, and presently start a family...and now I'm swimming - this is the first time I have put my mind to swimming and presently on a 22:30 pace with 4 months swimming - but this is just training and not done a 'meet' yet! LOVE SWIMMING to bits, but only do it x 3-4 a week to keep hungry to train.
Interesting to read other's backgrounds!
