I ask the question because when I returned to the pool last month after a three week taper for scm zones, I was swimming faster in practice than I had in decades. Now I cannot hold the same pace that seemed almost effortless just a week ago. So do I tough it out as usual until it's time to taper again, or do I schedule recovery weeks throughout the season?
What about brutal self punishment in the gym?
I was under the impression that Sprinters were deemed a separate species that did not qualify as Real Swimmers anyway.
Brutal self punishment in the gym is merely an excuse to avoid brutal self punishment in the pitiless waters.
You cannot drown in the gym, or rather, you can, but it is what the pathologists call a "dry drowning."
Real Swimmers, be they distance swimmers, or sprinters, or the most chosen elite of them all, middle distance freestylers in their late 50s, live always in the shadow of "wet drowning"--this signature risk in their lives is, in fact, what makes them such compellingly heroic figures in the minds of gym rats and other terra-cognita-huddled land lubbers the world over!
What about brutal self punishment in the gym?
I was under the impression that Sprinters were deemed a separate species that did not qualify as Real Swimmers anyway.
Brutal self punishment in the gym is merely an excuse to avoid brutal self punishment in the pitiless waters.
You cannot drown in the gym, or rather, you can, but it is what the pathologists call a "dry drowning."
Real Swimmers, be they distance swimmers, or sprinters, or the most chosen elite of them all, middle distance freestylers in their late 50s, live always in the shadow of "wet drowning"--this signature risk in their lives is, in fact, what makes them such compellingly heroic figures in the minds of gym rats and other terra-cognita-huddled land lubbers the world over!
