It's Never Too Late to Start Swimming. Here's How.

It's Never Too Late to Start Swimming. Here's How.

Growing up, I never really knew what to make of swimmers. They seemed a wacky bunch: clannish with chlorine-streaked hair, always boarding buses at the crack of dawn for aquatic centers around the county. From the outside, I guess, the whole thing just looked like a giant hassle — a difficult sport with tricky logistics. And that’s from the POV of a cross-country runner! Decades later, though, I envy swimmers. I envy their dolphin lungs, their …