Saturday, August 29, 2009

A view from the left coast


Our travelling field reporter, KBB, is on the West coast this week. Unfortunately, I inadvertently offended him by lumping him in the same category as all my lane friends who are on "vacation" (see yesterday's post.) Kim is not on "vacation", he is working. Of course he is an amazing multi-tasker - finding time to socialize with old friends, ride through scenic mountains, run in the foothills, sip on lattes, and go to a masters workout to watch the sun rise while balancing a very busy meeting schedule. It sounds really stressful, but if anyone can handle it, he can. Here is the workout he did at Stanford Masters this morning.

(Disclaimer: I am sure Stanford masters copyrights/trademarks/licenses their workouts, so posting it here in no way implies an endorsement of Stanford Masters or is meant to encourage people to swim this workout as opposed to the MIT Masters workout. Bottom line: those doing this workout do so at their own risk and parental supervision is recommended.)

400 swim
2 x (4 x 50, 2 x 100)
1 x (4 x 50, 1 x 100)
200 easy
2 x 50 sprint on 1 min
100 easy
100 sprint
2 x 100 easy
There were more sprints, but he had to leave (another "meeting", I am sure.)

Of course this was outdoors, 50 meters. KBB made sure I knew that. He made a couple of observations, too. No lifeguards, pool is reserved for masters only, few people wear flip flops, no lockers on the deck level and everyone leaves their bags out in the open on the benches. He may not come home!

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