I’m sure this is no loss to anyone but there will be no more Nuggets issuing from these quarters for a little while, as I am sulking.

In brief, I practiced and signed up at USMS with Academy Bullets during the 2 month break my regular team takes in fall 2009.

I’d been with that particular team since I first started swimming in 1993. I did stroke clinics with them and loved their workouts. I eventually got hooked on Open Water, and their 2 month break fell at a bad time for my OW marathon swimming training. Nobody on that team shares my passion for marathon swimming, or even Open Water. I wish they did. I do miles and miles alone in the pool.

Well…..I paid up with my old team for the ’10 season because I love their Tuesday and Thursday night practices and I get sick of swimming alone. I thought since I don’t do pool meets and I’m generally a pretty harmless person who goes to practice regularly I’d be ok.

It seems not.

I was told I could NOT attend my old teams’s practices starting summer if I didn’t change my USMS designation back to their club.

OK, but where does this leave Bullets??? Why should THEY allow me to practice with them if I change my designation back to the other team?

How does one practice with more than one masters’ team? I know people do it!

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