Let's Meet!
The best part of Masters Swimming definitely is going to swim meets. You'd never know from the leisurely 10-hour day that the meet is composed of hundreds of moments of individual terror. Not for me, of course. For coaches, meets bring little terror. Lots of stress, for sure. Describing a missing relay mate to their teammates when they have five minutes before the start. "You know Bob. He's the guy with that bad kick!" "Tessa! The one with the hair!" And explaining to someone how to do a back-to-breast turn when I've literally said that 700 times before (and then watching them DQ). But our meets are infrequent, with only a few each year. As if to make up for it, Masters Swimming has a lot of meetings . There are meetings in our local region, Pacific, and meetings with our national governing body, US Masters Swimming. I remember telling a non-swimming friend once that I was on my way to the annual Aquatic S...