In swimming the are four styles: freestyle (which is the one I do the best), backstroke, butterfly and breaststroke. The Spanish organisation of competitions, chapionships,etc. is like this: There are provicincial competitions in every community. This competitions are only to take times and do "Mínimas". A "mínima" is a time that you have to do to be able to go to a championship; this is an average time of the fifty best people times. If you don't have a "mínima" you can not go to a championship; so the provincial competitions are only oppotunities to do "mínima". In the case of Andalucía there are Andalusian "mínimas". To go to the Spanish championship there are "mínimas" for that championship and so on in the rest of the championships but as the territory increase the "mínima" is more difficult. There is a concrete number of provincial competitions so everybody has the same oppotunities.
In my case, I only go to provincial competitions and trophies (another type of competitions which are organised by the clubs, not by the Swimming federation) because I am not as motivated to do a "mínima" as my friends. I only train to keep fit and to have fun and see my friends. I train three o four days a week, although a should train six, during two or three hours depending on the day.
So, just to finish, I want to say that swimming is a funny sport and practising it you meet new people and make friends, but it takes a lot of time, so in high levels at school it doens't allows you to go trainning everyday.
Here it is my delicious where you can see some links related to swimming and my club.
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