monty wrote:
Stayed out of the pool to rest the shoulder. Wish I read this thread earlier... would have gone to the pool to prevent future 'nipping' from fellow fish ;-)
I was kind of wondering where you have been lately, figured you were deep into your final secret training for nationals. And just for the record, i'm one of those guys that no matter how bad a workout or race goes, i will try and focus on whatever tiny tidbit that might have been positive, and if nothing, i will make it up. I really had to dig to find that one event and those few tenths of a second, to find my silver lining in this meet. I suppose i only have 2 more weeks to own it, (and you (-;) so let an old man have his day..
Have a great meet by the way, hope the shoulder thing doesn't get in the way of a good taper. I swam with Cynthia this week, and she is not going to nats this year. She broke the national record in the 200 breast a couple weeks ago, 2;17, and broke the 100 yesterday, 1;03+. She actually decided to try and make olympic trial cuts just for giggles since she is so close now. And on our team we have the oldest male to ever make olympic trial cuts, 40 year old guy with a full time job and family. And he is actually a real masters swimmer, 3 times a week, 3k to 4k per workout. On that training he has gone a 55+ and 2;01 for the 100/200 breast, pretty cool.. How about this for some Tuesday news... you're going to own me in the 200 Brst for a whole year! I am not touching that event until 2013. From here on out it's all about 50's, 100's and open water swims. You can bet I'm going to try can put more distance between us in the sprints. My final secret training for nationals is so secret even I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just trying to drink chocolate milk like Dara. Fingers crossed! My silver lining w/ this shoulder think is that it responds to ice/heat/advil.
On a serious note that is awesome about your fellow teammates. It's inspiring to be around people at that level. I hope their times keep dropping and they grab some more records on their way.