T minus 11 days until I race the long distance pentathlon (200 LCM back, 200 LCM free, 200 LCM ***, 200 LCM fly, and 400 LCM IM) against an unknown challenger. I have it on good authority that this mystery swimmer will be wearing a Mexican wrestling mask and will not remove it between events. There are also unsubstantiated rumors that this person uses performance enhancing carbohydrates and caffeine, and may have even considered sandbagging once before chickening out. I'm told that our gridge hinges upon our total pentathlon time, but the stakes of this gridge have not yet been revealed even to me. Who is this enigmatic maverick, and why has he never been photographed with Gotham's caped crusader Bat Guy?
It's getting closer...let's see now...
Sunday is the meet, Saturday I assume will be a travel day
That means that the race practice schedule for That Guy is (presumed):
Monday: 400 IM race pace - probably went a 4:55 SCY
Tuesday: 200 Fly race pace - chances are he'll be under 2:15 SCY negative split (I don't know how)
Wednesday: 200 *** race pace - 4:03 SCY at the 150 mark, calling for lifeguard assistance after the next minute or so.
Thursday: 200 Back race pace - 215 SDKs on the 1st length, desc. by 1 each length 2:18 SCY
Friday: 200 Free race pace - 6 beat kick or bust 1:57 SCY
James' plan for practice:
Monday: suffer through the recovery of the meet from last weekend
Tuesday: back is sore from work...may not practice (yeah right)
Wednesday: Get on it...probably just train middle dist. free
Thursday: Same thing, maybe a little Fly or IM
Friday: More of the same...No taper
My :2cents: bet for the meet is going to on jaadams1 by 7 seconds over That Guy for the win. Why would I bet against myself??
It's getting closer...let's see now...
Sunday is the meet, Saturday I assume will be a travel day
That means that the race practice schedule for That Guy is (presumed):
Monday: 400 IM race pace - probably went a 4:55 SCY
Tuesday: 200 Fly race pace - chances are he'll be under 2:15 SCY negative split (I don't know how)
Wednesday: 200 *** race pace - 4:03 SCY at the 150 mark, calling for lifeguard assistance after the next minute or so.
Thursday: 200 Back race pace - 215 SDKs on the 1st length, desc. by 1 each length 2:18 SCY
Friday: 200 Free race pace - 6 beat kick or bust 1:57 SCY
James' plan for practice:
Monday: suffer through the recovery of the meet from last weekend
Tuesday: back is sore from work...may not practice (yeah right)
Wednesday: Get on it...probably just train middle dist. free
Thursday: Same thing, maybe a little Fly or IM
Friday: More of the same...No taper
My :2cents: bet for the meet is going to on jaadams1 by 7 seconds over That Guy for the win. Why would I bet against myself??
