I think it was Ande that said "it's not how fast you swim, it's how fast you slow down." I read that a few years ago and keep on coming back to it as I have watched my kids grow in their USA Swimming careers. When kids are around 8-10, many of the races are 50s. Lots of kids can swim relatively fast 50s compared to other kids even when their stroke technique is truly awful. But then once the clock strikes 11 (years old), all of the 50s go away (less one) - and magically many of the kids with bad technique who seemed fast start losing to kids in the 100s and 200s with superior strokes. My question is at what age are we masters swimmers when we start thinking 50 backstroke, 50 butterfly and 50 breaststroke are OK to race again? It is not OK. It brings our sport down to a level where people who train only 100s or less and focus on 25s are taking over our pools. No more I say!!! I think USMS rules should only allow these races for people in their 70s and older. Who is with me?!!!
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"summer league" events, .
Could you be a little more disrespectful to people that like to swim and are good at 50's and the 100 im? Training for sprint events requires just as much thought and effort put into their training as distances swimmers do(hate to break that too you)
They may not log thousands of yards of continous slow swimming each practice but when it is time to get up and go, they race at full speeds, very intensely. A distance swimmer that tried to honestly do a good sprint workout would see that speedsters train just has hard as distance swimmers, just without the long, slow yardage
"summer league" events, .
Could you be a little more disrespectful to people that like to swim and are good at 50's and the 100 im? Training for sprint events requires just as much thought and effort put into their training as distances swimmers do(hate to break that too you)
They may not log thousands of yards of continous slow swimming each practice but when it is time to get up and go, they race at full speeds, very intensely. A distance swimmer that tried to honestly do a good sprint workout would see that speedsters train just has hard as distance swimmers, just without the long, slow yardage
