Comments on: Am I Even Close to Ready?

By: CoachDeb

CoachDeb — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:53:34 +0000

Thanks! Advanced (not) blogger that I am, I finally figured out how to answer you! I kept a diary for many years and tend to write the same way I did for myself in those journals. I think it is a slowed down version of how I think but it is hard to trap thoughts that both fly around and get stuck, depending.
Swimming is such a surprise addition to the journey for me. I am still amazed ten years on. Although recently my brother dug out some old family letters and my aunt, when I was about seven , wrote to me talking about my music, my art and my swimming. So where am I forty plus years later? Doing all of the above. She saw it then. It took me a LOT of wrong turns to get back to, apparently, home.

By: CoachDeb

CoachDeb — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:46:23 +0000

Yes, exactly so. Maybe I’ll be ready to take better advantage this year. It is a mixed bag being with folk who speed up and slow down…some sharing space better than others…and folk not understanding the reasons and values in different pacings. I guess that is mostly how it is for a Masters swimmer. There is always a trade. It’s time, it’s affordability, it’s matching of goals, it’s whether you synch with the coach, what distance pool you like–you name it. I finally like working alone but there are things I’ll push to do with a group that I will tend not to do by myself.

By: andyinnorway

andyinnorway — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:43:06 +0000

Just excellent, I think you could write a swimmers version of Tales of the City. Charming, funny and elegant in the same way.

By: CoachJohnB

CoachJohnB — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:05:00 +0000

Sounds like you swim with John Flannigan at Haines Point in the summer.