Arrived in Indianapolis tonight for some business meetings tomorrow and was too impatient to wait for the master's workout at IU Natatorium, so I paid my $6 lap swim fee and jumped in a lane. The pool was set up as two 25 yard courses and there were kids' teams working out in many of the lanes, but, still, enough lanes and few enough swimmers to allow me a lane to myself for most of my hour swim. At most, there was one other guy in my lane, but I think he moved over as soon as I started fly.
I've swum in some beautiful pools around the country and the world, but the natatorium still ROCKs. I first swam there 25 years ago at a junior nationals and am impressed that the facility (excluding the beaten-up locker rooms) still leaves me in awe. With the names of the Olympians who were selected at the pool inscribed on the walls and the banners of swim stars hanging from the ceiling, this is a working shrine to our sport. I can't wait to compete there next summer and I hope I stay in shape enough to compete respectably.
My workout was a quick & dirty 4000 yards:
600 warmup: 200 free, 400 IM kick-drill
8 x 50s: 2 each on 50-45-40-35 aiming to get to "easy pace" 30s on the last 4
Continuous IM / free set comprised of
4 x 200 IM on 3:00
1 x 100 free on 1:20
3 x 200 IM on 2:50
1 x 200 free on 2:30
2 x 200 IM on 2:40
1 x 400 free on 4:40
150 easy
1 x 200 IM FAST (or, in my case, trying to be fast)
150 easy
My aim throughout the set was to hold the IMs on as fast a pace as possible and to just make the freestyles. It wasn't creative, but I was pretty wiped by the end.
I paid my $2 parking fee and left a happy man.
I second your thoughts on the pool. I was there last weekend for the TYR Grand Prix meet, and its just as good as it was many many years ago! I am stoked for LCM Nats 2009!
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Arrived in Indianapolis tonight for some business meetings tomorrow and was too impatient to wait for the master's workout at IU Natatorium, so I paid my $6 lap swim fee and jumped in a lane. The pool was set up as two 25 yard courses and there were kids' teams working out in many of the lanes, but, still, enough lanes and few enough swimmers to allow me a lane to myself for most of my hour swim. At most, there was one other guy in my lane, but I think he moved over as soon as I started fly.
I've swum in some beautiful pools around the country and the world, but the natatorium still ROCKs. I first swam there 25 years ago at a junior nationals and am impressed that the facility (excluding the beaten-up locker rooms) still leaves me in awe. With the names of the Olympians who were selected at the pool inscribed on the walls and the banners of swim stars hanging from the ceiling, this is a working shrine to our sport. I can't wait to compete there next summer and I hope I stay in shape enough to compete respectably.
My workout was a quick & dirty 4000 yards:
600 warmup: 200 free, 400 IM kick-drill
8 x 50s: 2 each on 50-45-40-35 aiming to get to "easy pace" 30s on the last 4
Continuous IM / free set comprised of
4 x 200 IM on 3:00
1 x 100 free on 1:20
3 x 200 IM on 2:50
1 x 200 free on 2:30
2 x 200 IM on 2:40
1 x 400 free on 4:40
150 easy
1 x 200 IM FAST (or, in my case, trying to be fast)
150 easy
My aim throughout the set was to hold the IMs on as fast a pace as possible and to just make the freestyles. It wasn't creative, but I was pretty wiped by the end.
I paid my $2 parking fee and left a happy man.
Yes the locker rooms are horrible (still dont understand why) but you are right, a great facility. Watched my kids swim there many years for Age Group State, and actually swam there myself as a master swimmer. (Kids were faster). the interesting thing about the Olympians names on the one end....during Olympic Trials, there was an individual who literally painted the names on the wall, as the athlete earned their spot on the team, during the meet! Cool place to swim, and fast too!
the interesting thing about the Olympians names on the one end....during Olympic Trials, there was an individual who literally painted the names on the wall, as the athlete earned their spot on the team, during the meet!
I totally forgot about that. I was there for 1996 Trials (as a spectator). I was living in Chicago at the time and my wife & I brought our first daughter who was only a few months old at the time. Proud papa wanted to show her the joy of swimming. I can't say it imprinted at all, but she's a swimmer today.
