The State of Master Swimming.

Tall Paul, Doug Adamavich and I have spoken about trying to create sister-clubs (CA-AZ) which could host each others swimmers when traveling out of state. Time and expense to travel is hard enough. But if there are friendships being stoked and part of the expense reduced, out of state travel can be a little less painful.That's a good idea, but, for me, it's usually the time constraint. I am so tantalizingly close to a great lineup of meets between SoCal and NorCal (~1 to ~2 hour reasonably priced flights), but getting away for a weekend doesn't usually work. What bothers me is when you have places (Arizona!) where we have a number of great and large Masters teams, but then get such piddly turnout at meets. I'm still befuddled by the people who train just to train. I don't get the point of that. If more people would show up for meets, we'd have more meets ... and I think those people would end up getting more health and fitness out of their subsequent training.

Tall Paul, Doug Adamavich and I have spoken about trying to create sister-clubs (CA-AZ) which could host each others swimmers when traveling out of state. Time and expense to travel is hard enough. But if there are friendships being stoked and part of the expense reduced, out of state travel can be a little less painful.That's a good idea, but, for me, it's usually the time constraint. I am so tantalizingly close to a great lineup of meets between SoCal and NorCal (~1 to ~2 hour reasonably priced flights), but getting away for a weekend doesn't usually work. What bothers me is when you have places (Arizona!) where we have a number of great and large Masters teams, but then get such piddly turnout at meets. I'm still befuddled by the people who train just to train. I don't get the point of that. If more people would show up for meets, we'd have more meets ... and I think those people would end up getting more health and fitness out of their subsequent training.