Friday, December 11, 2009
Losing it
On Wednesday night we did some pedaling drills. At first I wasn't even going to participate. I have spent many many hours on my pedaling over the years and it should be just about perfect. However, I decided to be a good sport and do it too. WOW! I have let my form go! I may have looked like I had it during the drills, but I really didn't. I have a lot of work to do over the winter to get my form back to being efficient. Fortunately I was given a Compu-Trainer to work with, which will help immensely. I am sure that it will come back very quickly, but it just shows you that EVERYONE needs to work on the basics. The trainer night was cold, but it was good to be with so many other folks out there. Sports Basement got another $400 out of me that night. Quite the gig they have going!
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I totally can relate on this one. Seeing the swim video from Sunday, I realized how much things that I "thought I had" form-wise have slid away. Granted it's been a while but I THOUGHT I had "conquered" issues that I saw on that tape! So it makes me feel good to hear you say that about the bike trainer drills. I know (as you said) if I were to look at you I would say "oh, he's 100% perfect" on the trainer, and maybe you would say that on my swim video tape. But when I see my tape all I could think was "holy COW, I'm doing that AGAIN?" I am so grateful that they did the taping for us because it gives me some very specific things to do in the water and not just "swim and get it done" - which now that I see 3 specific things I really have to work on, I know I have been doing; just "doing the routine" and not really thinking about it. And like what you said above, it's all about efficiency. Being efficient is the name of the game.
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