Happy Birthday, SB! (and we did it!!)

A hearty group of MIT Masters swimmers showed up to help SB celebrate his 50th birthday (that's him on the right). What is so crazy about this is that if you ever saw SB, you might think he is 40, but even that would be a stretch. One of our lanemates who will remain nameless was shocked, shocked! to find out he was 50. In any case, we did our 50 x 100 (actually 51 for good luck) and dare say, we had fun doing it. Even Ian "the hammer" and BB "I'm next" finished with a 50 fly. The anticipation of it was worse than the actual set, which given the intervals was very manageable. Here it is:

10 x 100
drill/swim on 2:00
10 x 100
descend 1-3,4-6,7-9 easy 10 on 1:50
10 x 100
1-2 pull, 3-4 swim on 1:45
5-6 pull, 7-8 swim on 1:50
9-10 pull on 1:45
10 x 100
odds IM, evens free
10 x 100
ascend 1-5, 6-10

AND

And a final 100 for good luck in the next year! 5100 total, awesome.

Great job all finishers: SB, BB, E, KBB, IW, BG, JK, KY, S, M,and moi. :) And a special thanks to coach Bill for coordinating it and getting us the extra time in the pool.