A bit of background...

Introduction: I'm Tim (duh).  24 years old.  Male.  Swam year round from when I was 6 or so until I was 18, for a total of about 13.5 years.  This is a blog to document my reentry into the wonderful world of swimming and getting into shape again.
 
During my swimming career, I swam for a variety of swim teams (I think I've got them all listed):

• Nashville Aquatic Club (NAC - Nashville)
• Houston Elite Aquatic Team (HEAT - Houston)
• Pelican Athletic Club (PAC - Mandeville, LA)
• Williamson County Aquatic Team (Water Cats - Nashville metro area)
• Caritas Swim Team (Caritas - Louisville)
• Tritons Swimming (Was originally Caritas - Louisville)

Up until I was 14 or 15, I was never really all that serious about swimming.  Around the 15/16 mark, I began to get serious and started dropping some real time in the pool.  I began to specialize in backstroke at that point, then around when I turned 17, I picked up butterfly out of the blue, too.  Really have no clue where fly came from--before then, I sucked at it in practice and meets, then all the sudden it was a lot easier to swim in practice, then at the next meet, I dropped 10 seconds in the 100 fly, and was a butterflyer after that.  Rather bizarre, now that I think about it.

Once I graduated high school and went off to college at The Citadel, I more or less stopped swimming.  I tried to swim a few times a week as a freshman, but the constraints of being a freshman at that school quickly killed that attempt.  In addition, after having lived and breathed pool water and chlorine for so long, I was getting to the point where I didn't want to have anything to do with a pool.

...Until the summer after my junior year.  I got offered an assistant swim coach job at a summer league team on one of the islands in the Charleston area.  I took it and had an absolute blast.  It drove me to get back in the water that summer, and I started swimming a short practice or two (about 45 minutes each) most weekdays, as my schedule permitted.  Once the school year began again, though, that stopped, and I remained out of the water for the next three years, until late this summer.

...To be continued...