Yesterday Mom, Dad, & I went to their bank to look after power of attorney issues. Mom also wanted to go to Costco, where I chanced upon a couple of great Christmas gifts. The highlight was a fabulous book for a family interested in the natural world: Bird Songs by Les Beletsky. It features the songs of 250 North American birds with stunning (often full page) illustrations of the male and female. The recorded calls are from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. As I had my personal expert at hand, I made sure Dad enjoyed listening to some calls, and he was as jazzed about it as I was! And Mom was very pleased I found something to make the side trip worthwhile for me as well.After we had lunch Mom and Dad dropped me off. I spent a few minutes with The Boarder, and scooted up to the drug store to pick up some prescriptions. It was a fabulous day for a walk! Sunny and extraordinarily mild for mid-November. I confess, I was more than a little sad that I didn't get to do more yard clean-up in the balmy weather we had yesterday.
Then it was off to practice. We began with seven people in lane five. And I was pulling the train. On the complex set, between the 75's it was last person touches first goes, between sets last person touches first goes. I substituted free for back. Once we started the hundreds, lane mates started dropping like flies. My goal for these was to pace properly. By the last touch the three of us remaining unanimously decided, "We Rock!!", and high fived all 'round. Mileage: 2,950 metres.
♦ 800 free
♦ 3 x (5 x 75; 25 stroke, 50 free; 1st set fly, 2nd back, 3rd breast)
♦ 25 free easy
♦ 10 x 100 free on 1:50 (I repeated 1:38 - 1:40)
Then it was a half hour of coaching skils and drills. No wonder I slept last night!
10 comments:
Love to read about your workouts...they are SO intense! You are going to do SO well come April!
That workout sounds absolutely lovely... good work!
What a fabulous book!
having those easy 25s in the middle of a hard set are so key
> We began with seven people
> in lane five.
Ugh.
> And I was pulling the train.
Double ugh. I hate pulling the train, especially when there are too many people to leave 10 seconds apart. With all of the drafting going on, I feel like I'm doing all the work.
> Mileage: 2,950 metres.
Insane!
> I repeated 1:38 - 1:40
Nice.
So there is actually an audio device with the book?!? Craziness...
I read a lot of bird books from the eighteenth century when I was working on this breeding book, there are interesting attempts even quite early on to transcribe birdsong using existing systems of musical notation...
Fe-Lady, thanks! (All encouragement gratefully accepted.)
Jenny, yes the book has an electronic component that plays the bird calls. Clearly a modern variant!
Brent, yeah, maybe I should have bought one for me, too!
DWB, sadly, only one such 25.
Joe: Thanks! (At some point I'm going to have to work on stepping up the speed of those hundreds.)
You may talk about bird songs, and provide pictures of bugs and flowers, and take care of a lonely cat, but when you hit the pool you turn into an absolute machine.
You do rock!
I agree with Spokane Al -- AMAZING!!
BTW, what happens to the folks who can't keep up? Do they just go slower, switch lanes, hang out on one side gasping, or get out of the pool entirely?
Thanks Al -- that's very nice of you to say.
Shirley, in this case it began by skipping a 50, standing and waiting, and beginning the next repeat as before. After a bit people just started getting out ...
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