Went to the swim trials yesterday and had a great time. I can now see exactly why they would choose to build that temp pool. Coming from a swimmer, it was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. 10,000 people going nuts for a swimming event. It made me want to cry.
Jenny Thompson makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. She carries around a presence that commands attention. From the nose bleeds I got goose bumps when she walked out. Most decorated olympic athlete ever! Wow...and again backwards, woW.
W 100 Fly finals. What more can you say. That was a great race. Thompson leads at the turn, gets out-touched at the finish, olympic spot in the balance. That would make her the second woman behind Dara Torres to swim in 4 Olympics. hope she makes it.
M 100 Breast. WORLD RECORD SWIM! 59.30 How many world records have you seen? That was great, those final 20 meters the stadium was g-o-i-n-g n-u-t-s! What a powerfull stroke. Fifty-nine point three!!!
The coolest moments during the day...Any time they would show the qualifiers for the simi's or finals, there would always be a group of people somewhere that would give a loud cheer. You just knew it was some no name high school or college kid that made the cut. Very cool...When Hansen was being interviewed after his WR he thanked the crowd saying "we really can hear you"...
Swimming notes.......There was a glaring difference in form between the people who made finals and those who did not. To say the least, any swimmer there would swim circles around the best triathletes in the world, but to see so many obvious flaws in so many fast strokes made me think. There is always room to improve, and more than likely there is a lot of room. You really could tell who would win based on stoke. Tight races were one thing but most of the time you could watch the first half of the race and know who was going to win. People like Stitz, Krazelburg, Klete, etc, were just going through the motions until the final 10 meters where they would take control and put everyone away. I had a bit of an argument at the pool the other day with a guy that insisted that he needed to do 500 TT's in order to get faster. His stroke was crap and I told him he needed to do more drills to get faster, not TT's. There is a place for just going hard but I think most triathletes need to do far more form work in the water. Just remember, when you start to think you are a good swimmer, there is someone out there at the Olympic trials who still needs stroke work. maybe you should skip that "sprints day" workout a do a few thousand on drills.
Swim happy, the rest of your day might suck.
Jenny Thompson makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. She carries around a presence that commands attention. From the nose bleeds I got goose bumps when she walked out. Most decorated olympic athlete ever! Wow...and again backwards, woW.
W 100 Fly finals. What more can you say. That was a great race. Thompson leads at the turn, gets out-touched at the finish, olympic spot in the balance. That would make her the second woman behind Dara Torres to swim in 4 Olympics. hope she makes it.
M 100 Breast. WORLD RECORD SWIM! 59.30 How many world records have you seen? That was great, those final 20 meters the stadium was g-o-i-n-g n-u-t-s! What a powerfull stroke. Fifty-nine point three!!!
The coolest moments during the day...Any time they would show the qualifiers for the simi's or finals, there would always be a group of people somewhere that would give a loud cheer. You just knew it was some no name high school or college kid that made the cut. Very cool...When Hansen was being interviewed after his WR he thanked the crowd saying "we really can hear you"...
Swimming notes.......There was a glaring difference in form between the people who made finals and those who did not. To say the least, any swimmer there would swim circles around the best triathletes in the world, but to see so many obvious flaws in so many fast strokes made me think. There is always room to improve, and more than likely there is a lot of room. You really could tell who would win based on stoke. Tight races were one thing but most of the time you could watch the first half of the race and know who was going to win. People like Stitz, Krazelburg, Klete, etc, were just going through the motions until the final 10 meters where they would take control and put everyone away. I had a bit of an argument at the pool the other day with a guy that insisted that he needed to do 500 TT's in order to get faster. His stroke was crap and I told him he needed to do more drills to get faster, not TT's. There is a place for just going hard but I think most triathletes need to do far more form work in the water. Just remember, when you start to think you are a good swimmer, there is someone out there at the Olympic trials who still needs stroke work. maybe you should skip that "sprints day" workout a do a few thousand on drills.
Swim happy, the rest of your day might suck.