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.
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I usually do equations based on either the distance to go, the number of laps left or the time. Factoring things into prime numbers is a favorite as is looking for patterns of relative primes. The bad side effect is that I sometimes get lost in the numbers, miscount laps and keep going past the end. For that reason, I prefer not to lead the lane unless the person in the lane next to me is of about equal ability and I can just watch what they do.
Songs:
"Help I'm a Rock" - Frank Zappa
"Sweet Jane" inc guitar intro - Lou Reed
"Deus Irae" - from Mozart's D-minor Requiem
"Our House" - Madness
Cuts from "Rubber Soul" - Beatles
The two song you don't want to get in your head are the Theme from the Beverly Hillbillies and Avil Lavigne's "Skater Boy." Harder to get rid of than a crack addiction.
-LBJ
I usually do equations based on either the distance to go, the number of laps left or the time. Factoring things into prime numbers is a favorite as is looking for patterns of relative primes. The bad side effect is that I sometimes get lost in the numbers, miscount laps and keep going past the end. For that reason, I prefer not to lead the lane unless the person in the lane next to me is of about equal ability and I can just watch what they do.
Songs:
"Help I'm a Rock" - Frank Zappa
"Sweet Jane" inc guitar intro - Lou Reed
"Deus Irae" - from Mozart's D-minor Requiem
"Our House" - Madness
Cuts from "Rubber Soul" - Beatles
The two song you don't want to get in your head are the Theme from the Beverly Hillbillies and Avil Lavigne's "Skater Boy." Harder to get rid of than a crack addiction.
-LBJ
