Hi everybody,
I am a new contributor to the forum, though I have been reading the threads here for a long time.
I am interested to hear stories from masters swimmers who are competing because of 'unfinished business' from their high school swimming days/college swimming days.etc
I swam in college and graduated in 2006. The college was D1 but one of the slower conferences. I was not close to making NCAA's. I have swam a little bit of masters on and off since then. It's been on my mind for quite a while but recently I realized how much 'unresolved swimming regrets' I have. I have decided to up my training and see what I can do.
So I guess my question is, for all of you who have returned feeling like you have some gas left in the tank, how has your experience been? Any words of advice or wisdom to share? And the ultimate question, have you managed to exorcise any of those swim demons by returning?
Thanks in advance for reading this.
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Same here. I don't need motivation to exercise, but I do need motivation to swim. My 24 year break means I never look back at times from my youth and always look forward. Plenty of goals to set here in masters and plenty of competition and racing. Plus, I would never want to go back to the yardage drudgery from my youth that made me avoid the pool for decades. I've enjoyed reinventing myself as a drop dead sprinter.
I think we must be complete opposites :) I am so unmotivated to do any exercise whatsoever unless it is swimming - and it has taken a long time for me to admit that to myself! I only discovered events longer than 100m when I started masters (except for a once yearly 200 free) and at that point realised that I was relatively better at mid-distance than sprints, so masters has always been a new era.
Right now I'm not so far off those PR times of 5 years ago. It does get harder as you get older, but I'm hoping my best is yet to come!
Same here. I don't need motivation to exercise, but I do need motivation to swim. My 24 year break means I never look back at times from my youth and always look forward. Plenty of goals to set here in masters and plenty of competition and racing. Plus, I would never want to go back to the yardage drudgery from my youth that made me avoid the pool for decades. I've enjoyed reinventing myself as a drop dead sprinter.
I think we must be complete opposites :) I am so unmotivated to do any exercise whatsoever unless it is swimming - and it has taken a long time for me to admit that to myself! I only discovered events longer than 100m when I started masters (except for a once yearly 200 free) and at that point realised that I was relatively better at mid-distance than sprints, so masters has always been a new era.
Right now I'm not so far off those PR times of 5 years ago. It does get harder as you get older, but I'm hoping my best is yet to come!
