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anigoWent swimming with the masters group last night. T'was great. I have NO idea how much I did. The coach said that the group did 1800 m, but I didn't do as much as the group - wimp that I am. I started off really well. Slower than the group as a whole doing the warmups. I have no endurance so 4 lengths take me a while, but it wasn't a race and nobody was watching me and the coach is very encouraging and she says I have fantastic form. After the warmups we did sets - just one length sprints of varying techniques. I was as good as many, and even better than one or two, when it came to these sprints and had some very encouraging comments from a couple of people. The people in the group on a whole are great. The coach is great. It's all just great! The coach's name is Heidi. She's about 8 feet tall, has long long long long sort of ashy blond/honey brown hair, might weigh 100 pounds if she's lucky. She's positively stunning. If she wasn't such a nice person I'd hate her! Oops... where did that come from?
The bad thing about it was that the group goes for an hour and a half and about an hour into it I started getting one of those STUPID headaches again. We had moved on to sets - (50 m x 2 slow and then 100 m fast)x3 and there was no way in hell I was going to be able to do them without my head exploding, so I admitted defeat. The coach was fine with it, saying I had put in a great showing for my first time out and hoped I'd be back again on Thursday. Unfortunately I won't, because Thursday is my regular swimming class, but I told her that I'd be back next Tuesday and I'd pick up with them on Thursdays after my swimming classes had finished.
I am REALLY enjoying it. A lot. WAY more than I'm enjoying running - and I get up in the morning feeling not nearly as beat up. I think that as the weather gets colder I may cut back the running some - maybe only two times a week - and try to do more swimming.
Much fun!
The bad thing about it was that the group goes for an hour and a half and about an hour into it I started getting one of those STUPID headaches again. We had moved on to sets - (50 m x 2 slow and then 100 m fast)x3 and there was no way in hell I was going to be able to do them without my head exploding, so I admitted defeat. The coach was fine with it, saying I had put in a great showing for my first time out and hoped I'd be back again on Thursday. Unfortunately I won't, because Thursday is my regular swimming class, but I told her that I'd be back next Tuesday and I'd pick up with them on Thursdays after my swimming classes had finished.
I am REALLY enjoying it. A lot. WAY more than I'm enjoying running - and I get up in the morning feeling not nearly as beat up. I think that as the weather gets colder I may cut back the running some - maybe only two times a week - and try to do more swimming.
Much fun!