I attempted the impossible...yes for a brief moment in time I pretended that I had fast twitch muscles and did a 50 fr and a 50 BACK :doh: While I was less than thrilled with the idea I decided that every soo often you have to at least TRY new events...my last official SCM 50 free was 1999 and I even managed a best time on my 50bk.... Of course there was the standby 200breast and 1500 free to make up for any brusing of the ego as a result of the meager attempts to sprint.
I have no idea how you sprint studs do it...I was the last off the block and as for breathing WELLL...let's just say there was A LOT...and my poor legs had no idea what the :censor: I was doing trying to kick.
STILL it was pretty fun..I was pleased that I am at least trying new events even though I am a distance/*** person. How bout you guys? Anyone stepped "out of the box ?" I am sure that the people at the meet got a good giggle but for the most part it was pretty fun.
:drink::drink:I have one thing to ask both Fort and swimmerlady....
There is a START?? in Backstroke...:thhbbb: I usually just find myself falling in as well...that is a goal of mine..to sometime learn a rather passable back start. I am going up to Indy here for a meet on the 27th and 28th...I am swimming all my favorites (distance/***/Im) BUT have challenged myself to 3 events that are again "outside of my box" the 200free/ the 100IM and lo and behold...the 200 Back....:rofl::rofl:
my evilstroke would have to be the fly on even days of the month and back on the odd ones.. of course any free event under 500 is also asking for trouble because the only fast twitch I seem to have are in my eyes and my mouth :p. I am however always pretending to practice those when I swim in hopes that the IM will improve. The only outside the box events that I have left are the 100back and the 200fly..then I will have done them all at least once.
Congrats to all of us who have at least tried to do new things...who says masters are "old dogs" that can't learn a few new tricks:drink::drink:
:drink::drink:I have one thing to ask both Fort and swimmerlady....
There is a START?? in Backstroke...:thhbbb: I usually just find myself falling in as well...that is a goal of mine..to sometime learn a rather passable back start. I am going up to Indy here for a meet on the 27th and 28th...I am swimming all my favorites (distance/***/Im) BUT have challenged myself to 3 events that are again "outside of my box" the 200free/ the 100IM and lo and behold...the 200 Back....:rofl::rofl:
my evilstroke would have to be the fly on even days of the month and back on the odd ones.. of course any free event under 500 is also asking for trouble because the only fast twitch I seem to have are in my eyes and my mouth :p. I am however always pretending to practice those when I swim in hopes that the IM will improve. The only outside the box events that I have left are the 100back and the 200fly..then I will have done them all at least once.
Congrats to all of us who have at least tried to do new things...who says masters are "old dogs" that can't learn a few new tricks:drink::drink:
