Butterfly kick – new?.
A fascinating variant on standard butterfly kick.
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Butterfly kick – new?. From Heath Rugby Club (233ft), turn left and at second set of lights, right up Saddleworth Road, stopping at the Branch (1.6 miles, 478 ft). Continue on and up to the foot of Barsey Green Lane (2.3 mile, 582ft possible pause), then right up the Lane, stopping at the top to gather breath (2.74 miles, 775ft). Turn right along Rochdale Road, then left at junction with Norland Road, continue on and down to junction with Turbury Lane, turn right and back to Rochdale Road (4.05 miles, 631ft). Left down Rochdale Road to lights, left and home (5.5 miles and 542ft of climb). All on road, with one section, Barsey Green Lane, unlit and steep. Short cuts: Going straight back down Rochdale Road, not turning off across Norland Road, cuts off .61 mile. Extensions: Part way up Barsey Green lane turn left up dirt track continue up to Greetland Road Road, then sharp right to top of BGL adds .39 of a mile. Or At foot of Barsey Green lane, continue to Barkisland post office, turn right up Stainland Road, then right along Scammonden Road, and right again down Greetland Road to top of BGL adds 1.67 miles. I ran with Zoe and Tracey – both better-than-me runners recovering from time off for the bad winter. BOK Masters has been around now for over 20 years. In that time,many swimmers have come through the squad. Many have come, and frankly, a similar number have passed on – but where to? Information wanted. Lisa Dobson (former world champion breast stroke masters swimmer) Lives still in Brighouse with her two children. I bump into her occasionally. She seems cheerful, and having her as a mum is clearly a good start for the little ‘uns. Victoria Watson. Vickie was (one of) our other world champions. she emigrated to Australia, and recently assisted our very own (and still) WeOf to yet another world title at the 2009 World Masters games in Australia, in a relay race. She liked swimming fly. She didn’t suffer fools gladly (speaking as one who knows – ahem). Is this Vickie? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZX6dSmSEg Sunday. The sets are getting harder, or the swimmers are getting faster, or I am trying a bit more. Warm up: 3 x [1oo free + 100 choice] Main Set: 3 x [100 free + 4 x 50 + 200] All on 15 seconds rest interval. IM: 100 + 75 + 50 + 25 + 25 + 50 + 75 + 100 – all on 15 seconds RI, dropping last length down, adding it back on the way up. That was enough. A one hour session in a 25 metre pool, in lane 4 of 5,set by Nick Overton. We had a few ‘descendants’ again – swimmers who are being pushed down the lanes by the fact of new faster and younger swimmers coming in at the top end. BrGo set off manfully to leave us ‘chasing his bubbles’. We were then joined by JiWh and MiGi. MiGi for some reason held back toward the rear of the lane. JiWh never quite knows which lane he is in. When up to and for it, he will very happily swim two lanes above us. When feeling his injury, he drops down. It was one of those evenings where he should have been two lanes up. The result in any event was that a few hours later, I could still feel the burning in my arms. Grand. Best of all we were visited by a young lad called Alfie – the new son of Rachel and Jim. At a couple of weeks old, it is not yet possible to measure his future as a swimmer, but he should be grateful that he will have a few years of innocence before having to face the possibility of joining the squads. Heaven help him. BOK masters swim squad, training session for 6 March 2010. This is a one hour set in a 25 metre pool, in lane 4 of 6. Warm up: 5 x (100 free + 50 choice) 4 x 25 IM order long/strong. Warm down: 50m (not much time) Records are short course records within the BOK Masters swimming squad. 25M BACK WOMEN TIME YEAR 50 M BACK WOMEN 100 M BACK WOMEN 200 M BACK WOMEN WO kindly maintains these records as she softly sips sangria by the pool near Fuertaventura. Our running club has about three hundred runners. At any one time, there will a number – unspecified at the moment – of injured runners. Avoiding injuries is a big thing, but I thought there was something we should do to assist those returning from injury. This is the session for BOK Masters swimming squad for 3 March 2010. Times are for Lane 4 of 5. The session is one hour in a 25 metre pool. I had given a suggestion that I might be back running again in March. I was sorely tempted not to go – a full three months not running outdoors – but I tried a couple of miles first, and everything seemed ok, so I took the plunge and decided to run with the club. On Tuesdays we run from a place called Saville Moor. It is called a moor because although it is parkland, it is relatively high, and exposed. It is on many occasions quite parky – in the cold sense, not the cut grass sense. In any campaign, there must be setbacks. I am trying to regain my fitness. The trouble is that I still have an image of myself as I was when aged 39 – twenty years ago. This leads to a fairly regular puncturing of the vanity. Another session this morning. BOK Masters, in a 25 metre pool and in one hour. The times are for lane 4 of 6. Warm up: 300 free + 200 choice + 100 free The main item of interest was a new array of small locking boxes attached to the wall. The purpose was puzzling until it was suggested (me, again, sorry) that they were either gerbil or hamster boxes – somewhere to place your favourite pet while having a swim. It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the surreal can become the norm. One point of difficulty pointed out was that though the boxes were nicely locked, each with a key, there was nowhere to store the key. This was taken by acclamation as a further demonstration of the famous locksmith’s conundrum – if you ask a locksmith where to keep a key safe, he can only supply you with another lock together with an accompanying key. In our case that would imply that we could have swimming suits with lockable sections to keep keys in, and such section with its own key which could be kept, no doubt, in a locked box on the wall. This drill looks to be a good way of re-learning or re-enforcing the need for and feeling of maintaining a neutral body. From USA swimming: It is also known as the ostrich drill. Somehow I think that our squad members would be good at this. A masters swimming session for one hour in a 25 metre pool. Warm up: 10 minutes choice Main Set: 200m free to set a time standard 200m Free 2 x 100m free 4 x 50m free 2 x 100m free 2oom free 4 x 100 (75m pull 25m kick choice – not free, easy) 4 x (50m easy IM choice + 10s + 25m max) The session was (for me) exceptionally hard. We have had an influx of new swimmers. They have tended to be young and fit and have filled to overflowing the top lane, from which tonight swimmers cascaded down a lane, so that we ended up with three guests from the next faster lane. Suddenly freed from the rear of that lane and not having to slow down for the ones in front and no doubt feeling a little miffed at the move down, DaMa, CaIr and SuPa, all went suddenly to it like little possessed ones. It was all harder and faster swimming. As I type, my arms are burning. Still all good fun. 4 x The Flipper is a little unpredictable in its content. Ahem. Many squad members will have no objection to appearing in their full glorious colour and open ID on the web. Others may feel more uneasy about this. I suggest, and will generally follow, a compromise. Squad members will be referred to by a sort of tended initial code. I for example would become DaSw. Other examples would WeOf, or JiWh. That will allow me to mention people without feeling particularly guilty, others outside the squad would not be able to establish easily who was being mentioned, and squad members will either be clear, or can just ask me, or WeOf or SuPa if really bothered. If anyone still feels uncomfortable with this, we can still use locally recognised nicknames – HMS (AnRu), or Bald Eagle (BrGo), or Froggy (ToFa). Anyone seeking complete anonymity – for example if they really want to swim for some other club, need only ask. Masters swimming, training session Warm up: 4 x (100 free + 50 choice) 100 M I.M. MEN WO keeps our squad records. Thank you. I am not sure how complete are the records. They were complete when I did them to begin with, but after I fell by the wayside, it may have been a time before others took over, and they have changed hands a couple of times since, and who knows what may have fallen through the cracks. I will be reposting elements of the records fairly regularly, and welcome any ‘who knows what became of’ responses. For example, one Jason Burke. Always a little, just a little, . . unkempt. There is now a Jason Burke with a heavy metal CD called ‘Swimming’. Is this a spooky coincidence? Filled in the form for Darlignton, and signed the cheque and sent it all off. Committed. Done. ‘elp. Will have to try to remember how to swim fast. A current issue among the ‘less young’ end of the squad is putting together a group of swimmers with enough age to make up a 200+ medley team, enough enthusiasm to get to a meet, and enough working arms and legs to do all that is required. I personally think we should apply for a disability discrimination allowance so as to forgive us kicking on the breaststroke leg – and possibly one or two more. Warm up: 300 free + 200 Choice + 100 kick/pull 8 x 25m Fly down free back on 35 sec 2 x 100 free – long and string Warm down: 150m Due to a shortage of volunteers, W and I moved down to occupy the last lane – just to make it look as if we were busy. Well, W moved over, and I went to keep her honest. She didn’t need it. Again a one hour session, in a 25 metre pool, for BOK Masters, set by Nick Overton. Good lad. Warm up: 600 choice mixed Main set: [5 x 100 hard] off 1 min 50s + 100 Choice easy IM Set – 100 + 75 + 50 25 – dropping one stroke by choice. The session is in a 25 metre pool, lasts one hour, and is for lane 4 of 5. The session is set by Nick Overton. I felt that we worked pretty hard. Darlington Masters Meet is on Sunday 28 March. It is a condition (usually unenforced) of squad membership, that you compete as a swimmer. You very probably haven’t done for a while – though very probably also not as long ago as me. http://asa.sportcentric.net/db//files/serve.php?id=7035 Please let Wendy know if you will be going, so that she can sort the teams out (team entries are paid by the club). Masters swim training session for 18 february 2010, BOK masters squad. Pain inflicted with a smile by Nick Overton. Warm up: 200m free + 200 pull/kick + 200 Choice 2 x 100 free long and strong on 2 mins Warm down: 100m A 25 metre pool, one hour session, in lane 4 of six. Nick must have heard complaints that we were not using fins that much. He must have wanted complaints that we were using fins too much instead. It is strange how people are good at different things. When K puts on her fins, her legs seem to go to jelly. She even missed a couple of lengths which is most unusual. Still she kept W company – not quite so unusual. Given that my knee is still recovering, I was a little concerned at such an intense kicking session, but in practice it worked. I could feel pain in the knee, but not to the point where it felt at all that it was a threat to being able to continue. I am not daft enough to take it too far – I hope, though I may be daft enough to think that I can know when I get to that point. Z has been swimming a little more frequently and it shows. She is clearly swimming more strongly. Well, I am making progress slowly. in part this is driven by desperation arising from injury (knee), and in part by a spirit of enquiry. I have to re-start running, and at the same time, allow my knee to recover from its injured state. If I cannot run without learning how to avoid damaging my knee, I cannot see it sensible to run. If I can learn how to do this, then I should not need knee surgery (the scrape), and if I cannot, then having a scrape out will only promise temporary relief before it becomes necessary again. Links: University of Utah – The cost of being on your toes: http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=012710-3 and (full text) http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/full/213/5/i-a Training session for BOK Masters swimming squad on February 17 2010. Warm Up: 2x[100 free + 100 pull + 100 IM] One hour, 25m pool, lane 4/5. Session set by Nick Overton. Definitely nearly found that damn mojo. It must be close by. K happily taking out the IMs. I think she was smiling, but never had long enough between swims to check. D and I had a conversation in which we decided that a longer session might suit us – we have to get faster at some point. A thirty eight year old Swiss diver has broken the world endurance record for free diving. Free divers go down, and stay down, and keep down, for rather longer than you might at first think either wise, and as you think about it more, more than you think is possible. Just a note that in the large majority of cases, the Flipper will refer to swimmers by initials (or pseudonym) only. Comments from within the squad should usually respect this. Time was when we didn’t, but time was when the Flipper wasn’t as wide spread as it is. If your husband, the man to whom on this Valentine’s day, you have just declared unfailing adoration, well, if he was drunk and quite insensate, and you just happened to have a tattoo gun, some ink, some time, and the need for a new hobby. BOK Masters, Huddersfield Warm Up: 200 free + 200 Not free + 100 pull + 100 Kick + 2 x 100 IM drill/full 8 x 25 Fly up on 40s, free easy on 30s 8 x 125 on 2m 45s. First 5 – 25 Fly + 75 free + 25 Fly; last three 25 Fly + 75 free + 25 choice Choice: 2 x (100 medium + 50 drill/stroke, + 50 medium, + 50 max) BOK Masters squad, 25 metre pool, 1 hour session, lane 4/5. It is suggested that N may have left the squad. I never know these things. We swim close by others, and outside the pool we know little of each others lives. It is easy to lose proportion. I hope she returns. Warm up: 10 mins various 8×25m free drill 3×100 free long and strong 9 x 150m (3x[100 hard + 50 easy (20 seconds rest interval)] + 3 x [25 easy + 100 hard + 25 easy /20secs RI] + 3 x [50 easy + 100 hard / 25 secs RI] 4 x 75m [hard easy hard + easy max easy] Swim down: 150m Again. Masters swimming squad, 25 metre pool, one hour session, lane 4 of 6. D enjoyed himself too much on the wine last night so complained that he has no flight left and was off his normal pace. W and Z seemed not to wish to complain, following him. At the end we were banmaxed – very like banjaxed, but more specific for the coach. This was the swimming session for BOK Masters squad for 1 February 2010. Warm up: 4x[100fr + 50 choice] Again, the session was 1 hour, in a 25m pool, for swimmers in lane 4 of 5 lanes for the squad – that is there are three lanes faster than ours. We are lucky in our lane to now have four people turning up and wanting to lead. Myself, K, J and D. It was K’s turn tonight to get keen, and push to lead. She does it so gently, and innocently – ‘Shall I go first – no, shall I, no really,SHALL I?’ and the smile does not fade. |
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