Swimming in Phoenix is such a Joy. In Portland all the pools I swim in are indoors, shallow and often a bit short. In Phoenix however there's a great pool really close to where I was staying. Its outdoors, deep and can be set up for long course meters. Long course meters is swimming lingo for a pool that has 50 meter lengths. Most pools are short course yards or 25 yard lengths.
There also is an amazing masters swimming group, Sun Devils Masters. They meet 3 times a day weekdays in Tempe and once on Saturday, plus other times and places further from where I was staying. My swimming grew leaps and bounds swimming with other swimmers. The first session I was barely able to hold 1:50 100's on a significant about of rest. When I left Phoenix two and a half months later I was swimming 1:45's on 2:00 no problem and put down a fastest 100 at 1:36. Huge improvement's that I'm super happy with. Now that I'm back in Portland I need to find a group that I can swim with here. Swimming by myself just isn't quite the same.
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