I just finished this book. I found it humorous, brutally honest, entertaining, a nice light read. But in the end it was pretty unsatisfying.
No doubt the outrageous goal of not just making a trials cut but making the team was a stunt, and not a bad one, since it gets our attention fast. And its apparent when reading it that he's really focusing on making the trials cut, which he didn't achieve in his 20s.
What's great about the book was that he's described just about all the crazy ideas most of us have had at some point in our training & competing, and done it in a fun way. What's maddening is that the tone of the book is inconsistent. I'm sure he had a deadline, but he didn't have the guts to delay publication 'till after the outcome of his quest was determined.
But how many readable books about master's swimming to we get to chose from?
I just finished this book. I found it humorous, brutally honest, entertaining, a nice light read. But in the end it was pretty unsatisfying.
No doubt the outrageous goal of not just making a trials cut but making the team was a stunt, and not a bad one, since it gets our attention fast. And its apparent when reading it that he's really focusing on making the trials cut, which he didn't achieve in his 20s.
What's great about the book was that he's described just about all the crazy ideas most of us have had at some point in our training & competing, and done it in a fun way. What's maddening is that the tone of the book is inconsistent. I'm sure he had a deadline, but he didn't have the guts to delay publication 'till after the outcome of his quest was determined.
But how many readable books about master's swimming to we get to chose from?
