Geek vs. Gull II, or why I now idolize the Geek and have embraced TI
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The Geek and I swam head to head this weekend, matching up in the 200 and 500 (in adjacent lanes for both, believe it or not). The Geek won both, beating me by about a second in the 200 and I believe 3 or 4 seconds in the 500. He'd shed 20 pounds since we last raced and shaved (as I did), but he was not wearing a Fastskin. I did swim a personal (Masters) best in the 500, nearly 5 seconds faster than last year, and split it extremely well, but alas it wasn't enough. As the winner, he walked off with a Starbucks gift card and of course this thread.
See you in Austin in 2008, Geek.
Geek takes his races out faster than I do, so I thought I might catch him on the last 100.
Maybe this was his "perfect" race strategy knowing that you'd been working on descending sets and pacing? Front-running is a strategy too.
Interesting that Geek is wearing a "Born to Lose" t-shirt with a devil ... I kind of like that shirt. Geek: I'm curious, if you don't mind my asking, what accounts for the 20 pounds loss? Is it the increased drylands and running you've been doing or something else?
Geek takes his races out faster than I do, so I thought I might catch him on the last 100.
Maybe this was his "perfect" race strategy knowing that you'd been working on descending sets and pacing? Front-running is a strategy too.
Interesting that Geek is wearing a "Born to Lose" t-shirt with a devil ... I kind of like that shirt. Geek: I'm curious, if you don't mind my asking, what accounts for the 20 pounds loss? Is it the increased drylands and running you've been doing or something else?
