WHAC Masters a.m. workout.
Coach Jimmy was on deck today and he wrote out a daunting set on the white board. 800 yards of warm-up, followed by a 300 yard pull set, then a 200 yard mixed I.M. and freestyle set, and then 20 X 75s on 1:10 followed by 20 x 25s on :30 followed by a couple hundred yards of shooters (try to make each 25 yard length completely underwater/no breaths. We knocked out about 3500 yards in an hour and 25 minutes and then surrendered the pool to Ian Crocker's (gold medal Olympian and past world record holder in the 100 butterfly) elite group of younger swimmers (high school).
So of us were a bit worse for wear for having been out of the water since Sunday morning but nobody dropped out. No one drowned.
Before firing up the new computer I did some dry land exercises here in the studio: 25 crunches, 25 push-ups and some work with hand weights. Hey, if you're going to buy heavy cameras you'll probably want to get in some weight training, right?
Now I'm off to clean and organize for our first photo shoot of the year: tomorrow.
A contingent from our Masters team started the year off New Year's morning with a plunge into the cool waters at Barton Springs. Not so dramatic yesterday with an air temperature of 56(f) but in years past it's been as cold as 24 and we still had some brave participants...
Swimming Pool in breeze.
No lofty resolutions here, just the same daily practice we've done nearly everyday since childhood. If you never stop you never have to go through the agony of starting up again. Hope you're moving and moving happy. KT
2 comments:
It's good to see that this blog is getting back to it's proper focus.
Your warm up is close to 2/3 of my entire workout. Also nice pictures of an endlessly fascinating subject.
Hmmmm. Must be a 'photographer thing'. Intervals on the exercise bike because we live where it's icy (just not today) so the road bike is long since stowed for the next few months. Some continuation of strategic weights that will clearly continue to help with lugging, lifting-over, bending, carting and standing for what-seems-like 27 straight hours. All leading up to the first job of the year next week. Now which exercises will help with airport security line standing, expediting the secondary screening and enduring the one-coast-to-another flights?
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