I can't help it. It is genetic. My fast twitch muscles just ache to be better then anyone else. So when I started swimming in October, I was a bit devastated that I was um... well I wasn't queen, I wasn't the fastest in the pool and well lets face it I was pretty close to be the slowest in the pool. Yes that is right I was very very slow. When you are lapped after 4 lengths you know you are not going to win any swimming races.
So there was a bit of a worry, was this the fastest I was ever going to get. After 37 year lay off it wasn't ever going to come back? For the first couple months my left arm was in constant pain. I worried silently (and sometimes not silently) that I had swimmers shoulder, but I was assured I didn't have the right symptoms for it. LZ thought it was just unused muscle getting back in shape. I still am not sure - still occasionally it will hurt. But that is not the point, the point is I am slow, I am not the queen of the community pool.
I have gotten faster, but not quite fast enough. I see my nemesis get in the water and I just have to grit my teeth because I just can't keep up. Problem is they don't know that I am competing with them, so they just go on their merry way and they don't even notice the large woman in the far lane gasping for breath trying not to get lapped. Oh the horror of it all if they only knew.
But when I started the first 100 was 2:30, now it is 1:42 so we have made progress, but those who pass me by are doing 1:10-1:15. If I put flippers on and maybe an engine...I may never be Queen of the Community Pool, but I will die trying.
So there was a bit of a worry, was this the fastest I was ever going to get. After 37 year lay off it wasn't ever going to come back? For the first couple months my left arm was in constant pain. I worried silently (and sometimes not silently) that I had swimmers shoulder, but I was assured I didn't have the right symptoms for it. LZ thought it was just unused muscle getting back in shape. I still am not sure - still occasionally it will hurt. But that is not the point, the point is I am slow, I am not the queen of the community pool.
I have gotten faster, but not quite fast enough. I see my nemesis get in the water and I just have to grit my teeth because I just can't keep up. Problem is they don't know that I am competing with them, so they just go on their merry way and they don't even notice the large woman in the far lane gasping for breath trying not to get lapped. Oh the horror of it all if they only knew.
But when I started the first 100 was 2:30, now it is 1:42 so we have made progress, but those who pass me by are doing 1:10-1:15. If I put flippers on and maybe an engine...I may never be Queen of the Community Pool, but I will die trying.
Flippers sound like a good training gimmick. T4 gave you some "hand flippers" - would those be helpful in training.
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T3 IS the Queen of the GV Pool!
you are awe-inspiring! Wicked fast!
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