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It's time for an on-deck interview to help you live well and swim well.
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Welcome to Champions Mojo.
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And now your host, Kelly Palace.
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We are doing an on-deck interview at the beautiful city of Fort Lauderdale Aquatics Center.
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We're at the fall classic short course meters meet.
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And I am with Lauren Anderson.
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And Lauren, we are going to start out just with our quick 10.
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So give us your name, your age, and your team.
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So my name is Lauren Anderson.
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I'm 51, but I will be 52 in three weeks.
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And I swim per Palm Beach Masters Oahoos.
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Very good.
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And um, what do you do for a living?
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I am in social work.
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So I work for a national nonprofit and we work with kids in foster care group homes.
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We provide trauma mental health services and forensic interviewing in a few different states across the country.
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Very nice.
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All right.
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What is your swimming history?
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So I'm the youngest of three.
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And so I started swimming on a swim team when I was um I was the only one that kept at it.
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My two older brothers eventually moved on to other things, but I swam all the way through college.
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I swam at Colgate University in New York State.
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And then I was done when I was 21 and I graduated.
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I was very much done with swimming.
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I ended up taking about a 25-year break after I graduated, got a job, got married, got a dog, got a house, got a kid.
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And so eventually back in 2018 is when I joined the master's team and came back to swimming.
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And it really was like I found a piece of myself that I didn't realize had been missing.
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So that is beautiful.
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So what is your best or favorite event?
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Doesn't have to be the same one.
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I think my best and favorite event is the 100 brushstroke.
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Okay.
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Um, nice.
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So uh with that in mind, what kind of training regimen do you do to, you know, to get ready for a meet like this?
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So I have started incorporating more strokes specific sets in for my meets because a lot of master's practices are very freestyle heavy or I am.
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So I've been trying to focus more on brushstroke.
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And so I'll do some rope-in 200 sets, either 450s or 75, 50, 50, 25.
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Um, and I've also started making sure I kick at every practice, and I'm doing breaststroke kick, so four to five hundred different sets of kicking and to get my legs strong because I need that for the 200.
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Did you swim the hunter breast today?
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I did swim the hunter breasts today.
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How was it?
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It was my best short course meter time by almost a second and a half.
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So I'm happy with it.
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Very good.
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Very good.
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So actually, I skipped this question for some reason.
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Your favorite swimming accomplishment.
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Um, I think when I went to Irvine for spring nationals a couple of years ago, and it was my best meet as an adult.
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And I swam next to Gabby Rose in the brushstroke events.
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Of course, this was like a year and a half before the she kind of came into the limelight in the um Olympic trials, but she was in the same age group as me.
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And I had a really great swim, and that was just like really fun to be able to do.
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And now to look back and be like, I swam against an Olympian almost, you know?
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Yeah, that's very cool.
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Um, how about you alluded to a favorite set?
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Um, is there anything other than like a broken 200 or another set you really love for your breaststroke?
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So, one of the things that we've been trying to do is every so often actually do really all out off-the-block sets.
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Um, so we've been doing like 75 off the block, and then we get a good four or five minutes, but it's all out and then a 50 off the block and then a 25 off the block.
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And I'll do that for freestyle and for breaststroke.
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And usually on a Saturday, it takes a long time to do because of the recovery period, but it's I think gotten my body a little bit more used to that all-out swimming and off the blocks and turns fast because I think as a master swimmer, we don't get a lot of historically, I haven't gotten a lot of turn and start practice.
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And so being able to do that has been helpful.
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Totally agree.
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I think that is the missing piece for people that really want to be competitive.
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All right.
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What is your biggest comeback in life?
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I do think it is swimming.
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2018 was kind of a pivotal point for me because I came back to swimming.
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And then I had some the next two years, I would say, from 2018 to 2020, I had some big life changes.
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I ended up getting divorced, um, moving, and starting a new job all at once.
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And it was sort of, it wasn't even really a comeback, I guess.
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It was more of like a refresh.
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And it was in the middle of COVID, which made it even more interesting.
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But it was, I it was like a new beginning.
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And that was uh, I look back at that time very fondly.
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Very nice.
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I would say a 25-year layoff is a comeback.
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Um, okay, what Olympic swimmer, and they could be dead or alive, um, would you like to have lunch with?
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I mean, can I have lunch with Gretchen Walsh and Kate Douglas?
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Sure, sure.
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They're friends, they'd probably allow that.
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I love it.
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Um, okay, fun fact about you.
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I have a 23-year-old daughter and two grandcats, and that's about it.
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Nice, nice.
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That that's a fun fact.
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All right.
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Is there anything that I haven't asked you that you would like to share with the master swimming community?
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I think that swimming has been such a huge part of this period of my life, you know, my 40s and now my 50s, and helping me feel grounded, finding a community, staying healthy, staying sh structured, I guess, and disciplined.
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And I just think it's such an incredible community that we all have in master swimming.
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And I'm so glad that I found it.
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Wonderful.
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Thanks for spending this time with me today, and good luck.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you for listening to the Champions Mojo podcast.
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