Swim Rant

Coach scheduled a benchmark set tonight and today is the only day that I was going to get to bike-commute to work. I had planned to bike from my house, 17 miles each way, a vigorous ride w/ hills. A cold front blows in tonight for the rest of the week and I missed other days due to a staff meeting and recovering from weekend warrior syndrome. I really want to see if I'm swimming faster since the last benchmark set in November ... and doing bike+swim same day will skew results not to mention the time conflicts. Why does Coach schedule these on the one day with the prettiest weather all week ? Well, here in the "Never Never Land of NOVA" our program almost always schedules a make-up session for practices like this. No crazed responses necessary here that NOVA is so huge - they can afford it - and no body loves me here at my master team! I did a make-up session for a bunch of swimmers who missed the part #2 of the Triple Crown this morning at 5:45am. If it was worth it to a swimmer to make-up, they got out of bed to do it early. But heck... if your coach doesn't / or isn't able to schedule a make-up session for you and you really want to do it - get in a lap swim lane or find a small pool space and find a way to do it. One of the nicest things about being a masters swimmer is that we are all adults. We can make decisions and do almost whatever we want to do to be a better swimmer. As much or as little. Even if there isn't the most desireable of available pool time.

Coach scheduled a benchmark set tonight and today is the only day that I was going to get to bike-commute to work. I had planned to bike from my house, 17 miles each way, a vigorous ride w/ hills. A cold front blows in tonight for the rest of the week and I missed other days due to a staff meeting and recovering from weekend warrior syndrome. I really want to see if I'm swimming faster since the last benchmark set in November ... and doing bike+swim same day will skew results not to mention the time conflicts. Why does Coach schedule these on the one day with the prettiest weather all week ? Well, here in the "Never Never Land of NOVA" our program almost always schedules a make-up session for practices like this. No crazed responses necessary here that NOVA is so huge - they can afford it - and no body loves me here at my master team! I did a make-up session for a bunch of swimmers who missed the part #2 of the Triple Crown this morning at 5:45am. If it was worth it to a swimmer to make-up, they got out of bed to do it early. But heck... if your coach doesn't / or isn't able to schedule a make-up session for you and you really want to do it - get in a lap swim lane or find a small pool space and find a way to do it. One of the nicest things about being a masters swimmer is that we are all adults. We can make decisions and do almost whatever we want to do to be a better swimmer. As much or as little. Even if there isn't the most desireable of available pool time.