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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if any of these records are a product of the high yardage/burnout-creating training I experienced back then? Even in summer swim we used to swim absurd amounts of yardage. If your body could handle it, you got fast really quickly. If not, you became a diver. :)[/quote]

Yes! 1980s/90s swim practices were brutal. Many of us left so young because of them. (Doubles at age 9, and such.) I remember having to do snakes at each summer league practice, and our pool had 10 lanes! You couldn’t stop! And we had to do free (10 lanes continuous), then fly, then breast. Most of us didn’t wear caps and many of us didn’t wear goggles. And we certainly didn’t bring water bottles to practice. We did, however, eat jello straight out of the packages.[/quote]

Yes! We were doing what must have been almost 2500 yards in 45 minutes (including playtime) as really little kids. Our summer coach was an assistant coach of a Big 10 program and treated us like short college swimmers. 8 & unders never had goggles, everyone else forgot them half the time or the band snapped, and caps weren’t really a thing until you were an 11-12 and then you also added the previous year’s suit as your drag suit. I used to spend afternoons in the dark listening to the tv because my eyes hurt so bad from chlorine.[/quote]

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