Dear All,
Thanksgiving swim activities of forum participants showed big determination on the part of many, big yardage, and maybe a dash of refuge seeking. Swimming over end-of-year holidays has a completely different rhythm: holiday/family obligations are greater, taking time from swimming, but there is also the wonderful, once-a-year New Year's swim, different for every coach and club.
Any big achievements over this period? Bananas? How did you manage migrating pool schedules? What is planned/did occur for New Year's swim?
Regards,
VB
Swimming with the kids is a blast. I usually do one meet with the kids each year at Thanksgiving. This last one I was in the lane right next to my son who is 15 (I'm 55) for the 50 free. Lots of trash talking even though we both knew who would finish first. It was a race for 25, we came off the wall together, then he turned on the afterburners and all I saw were his bubbles. I still swam a (lifetime) personal best and finished about a second behind him. We were also in the same heat in the 100 free but on opposite sides of the pool (he beat me by about 3 sec).
I'd never enter a distance race in one of these meets. The kids would be finished, showered and dressed before I finished. lol
Swimming with the kids is a blast. I usually do one meet with the kids each year at Thanksgiving. This last one I was in the lane right next to my son who is 15 (I'm 55) for the 50 free. Lots of trash talking even though we both knew who would finish first. It was a race for 25, we came off the wall together, then he turned on the afterburners and all I saw were his bubbles. I still swam a (lifetime) personal best and finished about a second behind him. We were also in the same heat in the 100 free but on opposite sides of the pool (he beat me by about 3 sec).
I'd never enter a distance race in one of these meets. The kids would be finished, showered and dressed before I finished. lol
