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.
Being able to put my head under the water in breaststroke = heaven. Love the glide. It's a wonderful change to the rules, as is the dolphin kick on the pullout.
"Remedial" is the perfect word to describe my backstroke. I'm like a turtle on my back. Maybe I should work on my SDK, there is more hope for it than the part where I move my arms.
Breaststroke, Philo? :applaud: Join the Frogs! Like you, backstroke is my worst stroke. But, I have been determined to improve it, so I can get better at IM. I used to feel like :drowning: while swimming backstroke, but a nose clip and some coaching has helped a lot! I have to ditch the nose clip for the IM, though, because I can't get used to using it for the other strokes.
Having the choice to work on my other strokes when/ how I want to is a huge improvement over my high school swim team days when the coach was all about filling lane slots. Backstrokers were plentiful on our team, so backstroke never appeared on the chalkboard for the breaststroke lane... :badday:
Being able to put my head under the water in breaststroke = heaven. Love the glide. It's a wonderful change to the rules, as is the dolphin kick on the pullout.
"Remedial" is the perfect word to describe my backstroke. I'm like a turtle on my back. Maybe I should work on my SDK, there is more hope for it than the part where I move my arms.
Breaststroke, Philo? :applaud: Join the Frogs! Like you, backstroke is my worst stroke. But, I have been determined to improve it, so I can get better at IM. I used to feel like :drowning: while swimming backstroke, but a nose clip and some coaching has helped a lot! I have to ditch the nose clip for the IM, though, because I can't get used to using it for the other strokes.
Having the choice to work on my other strokes when/ how I want to is a huge improvement over my high school swim team days when the coach was all about filling lane slots. Backstrokers were plentiful on our team, so backstroke never appeared on the chalkboard for the breaststroke lane... :badday:
