I do not have a swimming background, but I am a proponent of
Masters Swimming based on my participation since December 2009. Masters swimming is for fitness and
competitive swimmers over 18 years old.
I am at the less experienced end of the spectrum which also includes former
age group, high school, collegiate, national and Olympic swimmers.
During 2010 I slowly got my yardage up and began to learn
all four strokes. 2011 was a great year
for me and in addition to understanding all four strokes, I began to learn flip
turns and tried coming off the blocks.
All of my experience has been with one coach and one
pool. As a small group there have been
standard political issues that have been largely over my head. I am not sensitive to water temperature. I also cannot evaluate my coach versus any
other coach.
Recently my coach has resigned from the program sponsored by
the county recreation department. This
is alarming to some and I have even come to understand that some people joined
the program just for the coach. Some
team members intend to boycott the program.
I enjoyed practice as usual this morning and really just enjoy
swimming. Hopefully that doesn’t change.
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