OK so now that the SCY season is over and the tech suits got their Viking funeral, it is time to embrace the metric system and wear FINA-barcoded swimsuits! :bliss:
Is anyone else going to the Tualatin Hills meet? I will be driving down and back the same day.
www.swimoregon.org/.../10THBentry.pdf
I entered the 100 fly, 50 *** (lulz), 200 IM, 50 fly, and 200 fly. Any gridges out there? Is Allen going to lap me in the 50 LCM breaststroke??? :anim_coffee:
A funny thing about the red face - I train regularly with someone for whom the red starts in the face and works all the way down his torso. So our coach can simply look at said swimmer and see how hard he is working. A fellow teammate and doc was with me at nats watching this teammate in his 200 *** and after the first 50 his face was scarlet, after the next 50 the red was tinged with blue and down to just below his shoulders, and the 3rd fifty he got bluer (color likely descended but he was wearing a B70, so hard to say). Teammate who was a doc was alarmed at his color, as he had not seen many folks that color *alive* and not in serious difficulty. I was clear that this was a max effort swim and that he was hurting but going to be fine, and the doc knows and trusts me but was still quite concerned.... We had a good laugh about it later, but it was interesting. Know thy teammates :chug:
Long ago I emerged from a 1000 freestyle with much of my torso purple (see Fig. A). So I decided to stop wearing a cap in distance races. Not worth trapping all that heat in. I don't think I've had a purple torso since then.
A. :bolt:
A funny thing about the red face - I train regularly with someone for whom the red starts in the face and works all the way down his torso. So our coach can simply look at said swimmer and see how hard he is working. A fellow teammate and doc was with me at nats watching this teammate in his 200 *** and after the first 50 his face was scarlet, after the next 50 the red was tinged with blue and down to just below his shoulders, and the 3rd fifty he got bluer (color likely descended but he was wearing a B70, so hard to say). Teammate who was a doc was alarmed at his color, as he had not seen many folks that color *alive* and not in serious difficulty. I was clear that this was a max effort swim and that he was hurting but going to be fine, and the doc knows and trusts me but was still quite concerned.... We had a good laugh about it later, but it was interesting. Know thy teammates :chug:
Long ago I emerged from a 1000 freestyle with much of my torso purple (see Fig. A). So I decided to stop wearing a cap in distance races. Not worth trapping all that heat in. I don't think I've had a purple torso since then.
A. :bolt:
