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I've been going to my local lido as I got membership for my birthday. I go most evenings, last Saturday there was a bunch of young girls having an evening out and a bit of a swim.
I was plodding up and down the pool, and they would absolutely fly past me, closest I can equate it to was being in a pool with dolphins. I have no idea how they did it. A few times they would pass me and change direction in front of me whilst swimming breaststroke. I'd get to the end and they'd be there chatting and giggling. They were clearly amazing swimmers having a jolly, but jeez, their technique and speed were impressive.
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the local swim club have several lanes for their youth members when I swim, and some days I manage to keep up with them and feel really awesome, then realise they are doing kicking drills or single arm drills and die a bit inside.....
some of them are genuinely good national medal winning swimmers but still....
Greenbank
Sainsburys_Ed
I got overtaken at one point by a young woman who was steaming along, I kind of thought wow, she is going to set a fast 5K. Turns out she was doing a 10K and set a time of 2:28:53. Truly astonishing, how is that even possible? The whole place was on their feet for her
https://resultsbase.net/event/4654/results?round=10669&gender=F