Living in Eugene is great. Where else can you run into the world’s best athletes on a daily basis? Most of my encounters happen at the UO pool, and most of the athlete’s are runners not swimmers. These guys have some of the most beautiful strides ever seen on the track, but for some reason can’t translate that to a stroke. Your swimming stroke follows essentially the same principles as your stride: keep the left and right side even, bend your knees (elbows), don’t twist too much, keep your feet (hands) in line with your knees (elbows), … But most of the time I see straight arms swinging widely and unevenly. Nick Symmonds happens to have a pretty nice stroke, not the fastest, but definitely a good base if he ever decided he’d like to get fast. He’d be a force to be reckoned with in triathlon for sure, with proper training, which I’m sure he’d have no problem with seeing as he’s one of the fastest runners around (he runs a sub-4-minute mile). His is much nicer (and faster) than, say, Andrew Wheating’s who happened to be in the pool tonight. That’s not to say Andrew isn’t decent, he’s just light years ahead in his running. It is nice to see them in the pool, though. I’m sure they’d have much worse things to say about me if they ever saw me running at Hayward Field or in Alton Baker Park.
Anyway, here’s today’s workout:
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Bike:
trainer 2 hrs.
nice and mellow, woke up with a stiff knee from yesterday’s track workout at Hayward.
Swim: 4700 yd
600 warm up
8×50 drill/swim @ 1:00
4×100 scull/swim/drill/swim @ 2:00
1000 pull ~75%
100 ez
4×400 @ 5:45
build by 100, anaerobic for last 100
100 ez
6×50 build @ :50
200 cool down
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Abs/pushups after swim
