Multi-Sport RacingTriathalons and Adventure Racing have been sweeping the nation at a phenomenal rate. Multi-Sport Racing is one of the few sports where just completing a race is often considered a victory. Learn all about this sport, post photos, meet potential teammates or brag about your performance in a race.
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"It's what you've got inside that matters. The details and technological things will take you only so far. You still have to pedal the bike. Some people are always looking for the magic secret. There's no secret. Just bust your ass." -Dave Zabriskie
I haven't done it for several years but just started back last week. Man, it felt great just like I remembered. I used to swim like an hour straight but it was like jogging... too much just plodding along. I'm taking a new approach to it this time. I'm just making it more varied just to make it more fun. I even did laps underwater with fins to work on my lung capacity and my finning... this comes in handy for free diving later!
In any case, I don't have a Masters club where I am and I'm not driving 40 miles to show up for a 6:00 am workout so I guess I'll just be doing this by myself. Still, I look forward to it.
Who else swims??? This is my first time venturing into this area so I apologize if swimming has been discussed a lot before and I just missed it.
Hey Q, Great new avatar. I've seen the poster before and thought it was way cool, dude's like in his 70's.
I'll see if I can find you some masters swim routines on line. My Dad is a nationally ranked masters swimmer and he only competes with a team but practices alone. I'll get you a hook up.
Joe
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Originally posted by erowan: Q - I can talk swimming until the cows come home. Any time you want to ask questions or anything else on the sport lets get some talk going.
How about a separate area for the swimmers!?! YEAH!
I've missed this E. What school did you go to and howdid that swimming career go? I grew up swimming and gave it up for music to the dismay of my All-American dad. My sister went to Alabama on scholarship. I swam in masters for a few years until I just could force myself to get up at 5:00 three days a week.
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ODB - the long version...I decided between playing water polo and swimming in college. Since you mentioned your All American dad, I'll brag and admit that I too was a 5 time All American swimmer and one time (fourth team) All American polo plaer. Once I decided on swimming (since Pepperdine said that at 6 foot I was too short) I chose between University of Virginia and University of Pennsylvania. My scholarship offers were from smaller schools but my parents wanted me to go to the best school I could. I wasn't fast enough to get money from UVA and as an Ivy, Penn can't give scholarships. I decided on Penn. My junion year we were down in Miami on a training trip and my hand kept falling asleep. The Miami trainer examined my shoulder and said I was doing irreperable harm to it. I played club polo my senior year and we made it to the club championships...and against Arizona I went up for a shot, and tore my rotator cuff. That effectively ended my water days.
After school I took up running and have run two average marathons (3:30) - Cleveland and Chicago. I would like to enter a mini triathlon but I don't own a road bike and I would need to train quite hard since I don't bike for exercise.
My first year out of college I was starting a small business with my father and a buddy and I coached my local highschool team. We were voted Michigan coaches of the year after our team swam some wonderful swims. To this day I feel like I've broken down the sport. I wasn't the most talented guy but I was a grinder that slugged through every day..and I thought about my technique every stroke of every day for 16 years.
I still love watching swimming more than anything..even though I can no longer even muster the mental toughness to get back in and swim again. I feel it would just depress me. In one aspect, just realizing how I've aged and how much slower I am, and the memories of both great and horrible moments...
That's an awesome story E. Bummer about your rotator cuff though! You should get back at it! I think a sprint triathlon would do you well. If biking is your weak point, that's pretty easy to fix - being that most people either dread the swim or the run. You're 2/3 of the way there already.
Thanks for sharing your story, I didn't realize how much of a swimmer you were either.
Think the Leafs will get Lindros?
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"It's what you've got inside that matters. The details and technological things will take you only so far. You still have to pedal the bike. Some people are always looking for the magic secret. There's no secret. Just bust your ass." -Dave Zabriskie
I just own a cheap mountain bike..I've already had two stolen in DC and am now just tooling around on a gary fisher 300 dollar bike. It looks like any decent road bike and I have to shell out a grand!
I've heard the thing about triathlons is that you can lose more time during the bike than just about any other leg, since the good cyclists really drop the hammer on guys like me...
Do you guys find doing brick sets (if that is the right terminology) too time consuming during a busy week?
Yeah, I usually do most of my short training during the week, and my bricks/long rides etc on the weekends. Just like anything else, just gotta make time...
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"It's what you've got inside that matters. The details and technological things will take you only so far. You still have to pedal the bike. Some people are always looking for the magic secret. There's no secret. Just bust your ass." -Dave Zabriskie
. Thanks E for the resurrection. Check out this link for some good workouts.
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