Does anyone else ever mentally hum a tune during swim practices and/or races? My personal favorite, when I am trying to summon energy from my exhausted body, is the 1812 Overture--I try to time it so the cannons start firing towards the latter part of the race.
I'd be interested to hear what goes through other peoples' minds as they swim, musical or otherwise.
Jean--
Your tape is a great idea. Maybe you and USMS should make a CD entitled Rousers #1 and sell it as a fund raiser. If it proves successful, you could follow up with Rousers #2, etc. Who knows? Maybe someday it will become standard to pipe Rousers #417, etc. into the underwater PA system at masters workouts nationwide.
Doug--(Mr. Strong440--for some reason, I have in mind your name is Doug; forgive me if this isn't the case):
You make an excellent point, too, about concentrating on some aspect of technique. I just got back from a brutal (for me) workout--5 x 100 on 1:25 warm up, followed by 6 x 500 on 6:30, followed by 1 x 200 sprint, a slow 100, and 6 x 50 on :40. I get so exhausted during this kind of thing that I find myself murmuring the word "peace" to myself as I plod back and forth, almost an attempt to induce a little transcendental-ly meditative state of mind to distance my self from the pain of distance...
I think that for me the best thing to think about during swimming is pretty much nothing at all--I actually swim to silence my mind. Tchaikovsky's (spelling?) booming cannons are better than words.
Jean--
Your tape is a great idea. Maybe you and USMS should make a CD entitled Rousers #1 and sell it as a fund raiser. If it proves successful, you could follow up with Rousers #2, etc. Who knows? Maybe someday it will become standard to pipe Rousers #417, etc. into the underwater PA system at masters workouts nationwide.
Doug--(Mr. Strong440--for some reason, I have in mind your name is Doug; forgive me if this isn't the case):
You make an excellent point, too, about concentrating on some aspect of technique. I just got back from a brutal (for me) workout--5 x 100 on 1:25 warm up, followed by 6 x 500 on 6:30, followed by 1 x 200 sprint, a slow 100, and 6 x 50 on :40. I get so exhausted during this kind of thing that I find myself murmuring the word "peace" to myself as I plod back and forth, almost an attempt to induce a little transcendental-ly meditative state of mind to distance my self from the pain of distance...
I think that for me the best thing to think about during swimming is pretty much nothing at all--I actually swim to silence my mind. Tchaikovsky's (spelling?) booming cannons are better than words.
