Saturday, February 09, 2008
Midlife fancy
The 1 train was running express this morning, so I arrived early enough at Columbia to crack open a sports memoir. Yum. Set for an early June street date, Off the Deep End chronicles 41-year-old W. Hodding Carter's audacious quest to qualify for the U.S. Olympic swimming team. To echo the mighty words of our dashing dryland coach, "Rock on!"
Here's this morning's main set, chicos y chicas. We began with a series of 15 x 100s:
1 x100 (Fly/Free/Fly/Free)
2 x 100 IM
2 x 100 Free
1 x 100 (Back/Free/Back/Free)
2 x 100 IM
2 x 100 Free
1 x 100 (Breast/Free/Breast/Free)
2 x 100 IM
2 x 100 Free
After an extended stop in IM Central Station, we swam 10 x 75s in the following pattern:
Swim/Kick/Swim (odds)
Kick/Swim/Kick (evens)
It was in a word: rigorous. And, to insert a quote from page 43, "The feeling was an epiphany."
Here's this morning's main set, chicos y chicas. We began with a series of 15 x 100s:
1 x100 (Fly/Free/Fly/Free)
2 x 100 IM
2 x 100 Free
1 x 100 (Back/Free/Back/Free)
2 x 100 IM
2 x 100 Free
1 x 100 (Breast/Free/Breast/Free)
2 x 100 IM
2 x 100 Free
After an extended stop in IM Central Station, we swam 10 x 75s in the following pattern:
Swim/Kick/Swim (odds)
Kick/Swim/Kick (evens)
It was in a word: rigorous. And, to insert a quote from page 43, "The feeling was an epiphany."
