5:30am- open water swim class. The group gets broken up into two smaller groups- the fast group and the not so fast group. I'm in the not so fast group. But this morning I was the fastest of the not so fast group. That honor kind of rotates around and it was my turn today.
The lake was pretty choppy this morning so Derek (our instructor) had us working on 2 things...
1) Breathing technique in the choppy conditions.
2) Sighting technique in the choppy conditions.
The breathing is a bit of a challenge, as you need to kind of feel when you rise up to the top of a wave and take your breath at that point. You also need to know which direction the waves are coming from and breath on the opposite side. If you mess up either of these- you get a mouth full of water. Dirty, green water.
The sighting is also a challenge- for much the same reason. You need to again feel when you are on the top of a wave and quickly look up and sight on the next buoy. Often times there are more big waves ahead of you, so that quick glance doesn't do it- you need to keep your head up for a while longer to find that buoy. Keeping your head up for a while longer once again risks taking on a mouth full of water. Dirty, green water.
So as we finished up the class, us not so fast kids were talking about the swim and I mentioned how tough it was to sight at times. One by one they all said they had no problem sighting at all- they all knew I swim a straight line, so they just followed my swim cap- never really had to find the buoys. Just follow Pat- it's not that tough (so I guess I'm not the fastest- I was just out front so they didn't have to sight). Derek and I had a good laugh about that one- you all should have met me a year ago- as Derek pointed out, at that time I couldn't swim 4 strokes without getting off course- he also used that as an example of what practice can do...
What is it with coaches and their obsession with practice?
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