Anna s wrote:
Great news you're on your bike again and you've found a way to ride with the leg spasms :-) and huge congrats to your son Dev! You're the only Indian father I know who wants his son to be a good runner, unless it's for running between wickets!!
Your experiment workout looks good but hard! How was the 200 fly in the middle?
Todays swim - 2500m
500 free
500 pull with buoy/paddles
10x100 - 50 kick/50 pull, 100 free fast
500 pull with buoy/paddles
LOL...."what do you mean you're not getting a PhD????...the entire family pedigree will be diminished" (in fairness, my parents never pushed us towarads the PhD track, but fortunately my sister got one after three masters degrees.....I just devoted all the energy that normal Indians use towards a PhD squandering it on sport LOL after topping out at 2 masters....and 31 IM's later, I suppose I have a virtual PhD at sucking between mile 16 and 26 of the run....I could write a pretty bulletproof PhD thesis on that topic). In all seriousness, my son trends towards the academic side....he actually wants to learn, not just punch a ticket to a degree (what kind of Indian mentality is that anyway....Indians just want status regardless of how it comes....sorry for the broad stereotype but I think you get what I am talking about !!!
By the way, taking from your swim, set, I will get back to doing some pull with paddles. I am thinking about doing the 11K King Wolf Swim in Lake Ontario in July:
https://www.kingwolfswim.com/ or the North Shore (Lake Erie) Challenge (10K):
http://northshorechallenge.ca/ Yesterday's set was actually quite fun. Being new to the technical and pacing aspects of IM and fly swimming, I don't have a lifetime of practicing these in competition like all the studs in the lanes beside me. I am gradually appearing to be "less out of place" and pathetic in lane 1 or 8 (slow guy/gal lanes) and more part of the competition albeit a country mile behind. I think by next year, when I get the breast and back stroke to the level of my fly, then real swimmers will consider me an actual swimmer and maybe I can fly under the radar and swimmers won't think I am a runner trying to muck around at swim events. But it really takes a long long time for us land animals as don't have the innate coordination in water. You used the cricket analogy, and be it in that sport, or soccer, or baseball, or track I can feel in my body pretty well every motion of a pro sports player. When it comes to swimming, I can't just watch Phelps or Sarah Sjostrom and feel the motion of them doing fly in my body. I just can't feel it...I can try!
Are you still doing Roth?