#73 - Structuring Swimming Like the UFC, Masters Swimmers, & MORE

I posted about...

Just how obsessed I am with master swimming yesterday, and I've been talking about it a lot more recently, and I just want to talk about master swimming for a second.

I just think it is one of the best things in the sport of swimming in the world.

It's just truly incredible, and I'm going to unpack this a little bit because I know that's just a very blanket statement, but Here's my take on master swimming.

You and I both started swimming at four or five.

And rec swimming was super fun.

It was our childhood.

It's how we made a lot of friends.

Summers in the East Bay were practice in the morning, hang out and swim for free swim all afternoon, and then Wednesday night meets and Saturday meets.

And then I got to the invitational meets where it's like a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and summers are busy.

That was super fun.

Don't get me wrong, but highly competitive and fun.

It leads typically for most serious swimmers into club swimming, which is year round, which we talk about more than enough.

And I don't know.

It is.

Some people love it.

Some people don't.

Whatever.

And then there's college swimming and pro swimming and swimming can be really intense.

And I think after college.

I mean, of course, I took like a not very traditional path.

And when I finished at Cal Poly, I went back to a JC and I played water polo and I swam.

So I guess like the highest level I swam at was junior college swimming.

It was like really serious.

It was really intense.