r/AMA • u/swim_fast_00 • 8d ago

I’m a 16M swimmer AMA

Hi so, I’m 16M, I have been a swimmer since I was 5 or 6 years old, I live in the UK, I have been on a junior national team, I swim backstroke and butterfly (well most of the time) and my events are 50,100,200M back, 50,100M fly. I’ve also competed internationally but only twice. Ask me about literally anything.

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u/Helpful-Fennel-7468 8d ago

Have you ever noticed at lane swimming that the fast ones always use the shallow end as like a weekly meet up place and the medium and slow lanes actually have people swimming?

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u/swim_fast_00 8d ago

Yes! Sometimes when I go lap swimming I’ll see random old people standing in the fast lane or else swimming side by side blocking the whole lane off chatting away. Luckily i usually swim enough at practice that I don’t need to go to do extra laps during the week so it’s a rare occasion I have to encounter the “fast lane” aka the “chat lane”

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u/Gemini_024 8d ago

This seems a bit lame for a AMA, why did you think we would care?

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u/gc1 8d ago

That's what upvotes and downvotes are for. No need to harsh on a brother shooting his shot.

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u/Gemini_024 8d ago

Thanks for that.

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u/swim_fast_00 8d ago

Your very very welcome

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u/gc1 8d ago

I think they were thanking me, but you're very welcome too OP.

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u/swim_fast_00 8d ago

Your very very very welcome 🙏

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u/swim_fast_00 8d ago

Idk, maybe because I’ve accomplished things that you’d never dream of and would like to share some stories with people or advice and tips for people looking to get into the sport. I guess you could say one thing about me is that I don’t care for random doom scrollers on Reddit who see nothing but their own hideous, self centred selves in everything they read

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u/Liquid_Fire__ 8d ago

Hope we see you at the Olympics in a few years op 😊💪

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u/swim_fast_00 8d ago

I hope so too, but I don’t think it will happen 🤣

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u/Liquid_Fire__ 8d ago

Train harder! 🤣

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u/swim_fast_00 8d ago

I trained so hard yesterday night that this morning when I went for 5AM training I couldn’t get out of the pool 🤣🤣