The 29 Confessions Of A Distance Swimmer

From the Swimming World website...
By Chandler Brandes, Swimming World College Intern
"I didn’t choose the distance life. The distance life chose me."
Well, not quite.
Distance swimmers are all born the same way: we swam the 500 for the first time around age nine or 10 and didn’t do too badly, so our coaches put us in it again at the next meet.