Hi Everybody!
DianaC and I did the Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim on September 16th. It was a great race. We both completed it. My time was 56:20.1 for 1.5 miles. We had a beautiful day for the swim. The view was great. I highly recommend it. For info about the race and results, check out http://www.envirosports. We met so many great people. Anyone else go to the race?
Swimmy :)
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It has been about 4 months since I began to seriously train for my Alcatraz swim on June 10. I joined a Masters Swim program, and swim 3 times a week,..6am till 7:30. My coach, Alicia Ianni, has been such a help to me,..picking apart my stroke, telling me my weaknesses, and pushing me to an extreme that I thought I could not accomplish. I swam a non-stop 1000 yards in 16 min. 30 seconds. Last week I did a 29 min. 15 second mile,...after a 800 yard warm-up and a series of drills. This past Sunday I did a solo swim around the Oceanside California Pier,..its about a mile trip. The seas were choppy,....I could not navigate at all,..it was terrible,..I came close to panicking,...but forced myself to relax and continue. I made the swim in 32 minutes, but some of that swim involved the breaststroke because I could not see where I was going while doing the crawl. I would take ten strokes and look up, and would find myself off course.
Are there tricks to navigating???:confused:
The wide ocean is a harsh mistress,...but I love her.
It has been about 4 months since I began to seriously train for my Alcatraz swim on June 10. I joined a Masters Swim program, and swim 3 times a week,..6am till 7:30. My coach, Alicia Ianni, has been such a help to me,..picking apart my stroke, telling me my weaknesses, and pushing me to an extreme that I thought I could not accomplish. I swam a non-stop 1000 yards in 16 min. 30 seconds. Last week I did a 29 min. 15 second mile,...after a 800 yard warm-up and a series of drills. This past Sunday I did a solo swim around the Oceanside California Pier,..its about a mile trip. The seas were choppy,....I could not navigate at all,..it was terrible,..I came close to panicking,...but forced myself to relax and continue. I made the swim in 32 minutes, but some of that swim involved the breaststroke because I could not see where I was going while doing the crawl. I would take ten strokes and look up, and would find myself off course.
Are there tricks to navigating???:confused:
The wide ocean is a harsh mistress,...but I love her.
