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November 29, 2007
Masters Swim!
I haven't been to masters swim in...oh...let's call it an even year. (although I think I might have been there in December of 2006, we'll just round up).
But this past week I got a hankerin' to go. Even though I knew it would be a little more intensity than I needed right now, swimming is the one sport I could use a little intensity in. And I really missed the people at masters swim. And I like swimming in Pitt's pool because I always swim fast there. Don't ask me why. I blame in on the freezing cold water. Much different than my toasty, bath-like water at the YMCA. :)
Regardless, I decided today was the day I was going to go so go I did! When I got up this morning to make the trek down to Oakland though I was VERY nervous!?! Why so nervous I wondered? I guess because I hadn't gone for so long and even though I planned on staying far, far away from the fast lanes, there was a little more pressure of worrying about swimming too slow.
Long story short, it was just awesome!!! I had forgotten how much I loved masters swim - just a great group of people (a very good number of whom are triathletes) that I really enjoy being around. The coach Jen is great and comes up with awesome workouts (are all masters coaches named Jen?) and it's just plain nice to swim with people after swimming by myself for a full year. And I still swim faster in that pool. :)
I think that I will try to return once a week for at least a little. The volume and intensity are just a bit much right now and in the very heart of my season the volume (too low at that time of year!) and specificity might be a bit off but for at least a couple months I think the benefit (both mentally and physically) of going far outweigh the harm. I'll talk with Coach about that one but I think he would probably agree!
So yeah for masters swimming! So fun to talk with a bunch of other swimmers/triathletes!
The only problem is...I got handed a sheet about a swim meet. Yes, a SWIM MEET! Too scary. But I might actually consider doing it. It's a meet with only one event - the 1650 yds! I will have to think a lot about this though because me showing up at a swim meet is about like a snowball showing up in Florida (read - VERY out of place). I'm really sort of intrigued by the idea though. And I need practice diving off blocks anyway because at the NYC tri in July my group has a dive entry into the Hudson! (yep - I've been worrying about that already and it's only 8 months away!! :)
Have a great night everyone!
Posted by beth at November 29, 2007 5:58 PM
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YES Beth!
LOVED this post. Haha. Masters is great...and they tend to swim on the "swimming" schedule, so that means hard and meets in the winter, but it is sooo good! Do a meet!!! you will learn alot about how to swim hard. :) Jen
Posted by: Jennifer Harrison at November 29, 2007 6:41 PM
Do it!
Posted by: Dawn at November 29, 2007 7:41 PM
Do it!
Posted by: Dawn at November 29, 2007 7:42 PM
GO FOR IT!!!! You will love it! :-) Mary
Posted by: mary at November 30, 2007 3:44 PM
what a great idea!
Posted by: corrado giambalvo at November 30, 2007 5:29 PM