In the pool older men in speedos were constantly overtaking younger men in shorts because speedos have less drag than shorts and because constant swimming hones your style and improves your fitness and endurance.
A younger man wanting to swim at the same speed as the older men would have to do a lot of swim training and buy some speedos.
It's considerably easier to declare all the men in speedos are gay that you don't want to be with them and to give up swimming.
In cycling you'll find the faster fitter cyclists are wearing Lycra cycle shorts, simply declare them all to be fanatics and continue cycling slowly in jeans.
Our sports shops have all become boutiques where unfit people buy clothing unsuitable for doing sport because they think it looks cool.
I heard a BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour program in which a woman said that before she could go for a jog she'd have to get all the gear and then she'd be too embarrassed to wear it because she's so fat and unfit. Catch 22!
Go swimming in shorts until you are fit enough to keep up with the older men in speedos, you'll know that that you'll be able to overtake them if you buy some speedos suddenly it will be a lot easier to buy those speedos and you'll know that you've earned them. Who cares about the slow guy in shorts that think you're gay!
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