Masters' swimmers have been proving it for years and Dara proved it with an exclamation point in Beijing that you can go faster at 40-something than you did at 20-something. As someone 15 days older than Dara, what I wonder is this: At what age will the aging process take over and, despite whatever training you do (& without resorting to drug enhancements), you will slow down?
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I am a much smarter swimmer now, but physically there is no comparison to myself in the late teens or early 20s, and the difference cannot be explained by extra weight or less opportunity to train.
I believe that, had I continued to train seriously, I would have probably peaked in the mid-to-late 20s.
Ditto - I feel I was still getting faster when I quit at age 22, but there is no chance in hell that I will achieve those times again...
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I am a much smarter swimmer now, but physically there is no comparison to myself in the late teens or early 20s, and the difference cannot be explained by extra weight or less opportunity to train.
I believe that, had I continued to train seriously, I would have probably peaked in the mid-to-late 20s.
Ditto - I feel I was still getting faster when I quit at age 22, but there is no chance in hell that I will achieve those times again...
