Proper grip, proper stance, controlled backswing, keep your head down, turn your wrists over, shift your weight, rotate your hips, front arm straight, follow through... etc, etc, and do all these things at once without even thinking about it. That's why I was never any good at golf and will never be any good at swimming. Either you have the genetic makeup for natural athletic ability or you don't. Swimming is very , very technical and I just don't have it. I acknowledge that and will still try to work hard to get a bit better, but I admit that I'm not having much fun doing it. This weekend I will try it with my wetsuit to see if that gives me a mental boost.
Of course I may have lots of time to spend at the pool over the next while because if my knee doesn't start to fell better soon I'm not going to have much choice but to limit my training to swimming for a week or so. It is still troubling me. Not to the point that it's too painful to work out, but I know from exprience that it can get there if not properly dealt with. On my run around the block today it started acting up within 5 minutes which is a bad sign, but then starting easing off by the time I was done, which is a good sign. Tomorrow I will be trying to ride again and that will be a good test. I will decide after that whether I need to take some time off, or whether I can keep ploughing ahead. Wish me luck!!
Head up, or is that down, elbows high, finish your stroke, swivel your hips, point your toes, drag your fingertips on recovery, catch the water, don't cross over centre, hips high in the water, and kick, and breathe...blah, blah, blah
I wish to dedicate day 86 to my friend James Frost who can't golf, and can't swim, but can and often is an inspiration to me
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up. ~Abraham Maslow
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.- Ben Hogan
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peter
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I didn't respond to yesterday's query about your knee because I don't have enough information to properly make up an answer. I'm certain the ice and the ibuprofen can only be a good thing, but is it the best thing? Do you have a diagnosis? What exactly does it feel like? Is it more painful with weight bearing, impact or release of weight? Where in your knee do you feel it most? Have you considered seeing a sports medicine specialist? (That's a doctor, not a trainer) Have you considered some sort of supportive device? (Only the expensive lightweight ones that are made especially for you will be any good for training) I think if this is important to you that you should investigate this now rather than later because there is lots of good stuff out there for old codgers like you who want to do things like IronMan Canada without being a gimp when you're through. As you are aware there are also new kinds of inaging out there that can maybe pin point the problem and make it easier to solve or support without cutting into your training as much. Now if Roo has you on a budget (and yes I'm sure there was nothing in the vows except the bike), then you need to carefully consider some of this as part of your equipment list before you go buying new wetsuits and such. A smart man knows his limits and doesn't try to surpass them. An idiot knows his limits and charges on ahead anyway. You're an idiot. You know it, we all know it, and I think we should just come to terms with that and offer any support we can. Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with and I (having never tested my limits and thus being blissfully unaware of what they might be)will move mountains to do it for you. I have a soft spot for idiots. all my love
that word half way through was supposed to be imaging, not inaging. Woops!!! another mistake to add to my list
idiot!
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