Masters swimming, training session
Warm up: 4 x (100 free + 50 choice)
Starter: 6 x 25 m on 30 seconds, building
Main: 10 x 100 on 1 min 50 sec. push
4 x 25m from dive blast in relay. Plenty of rest. Hard.
3 x 100m on 2 minutes aerobic.
Again this was a 25 metre pool, a one hour session and lane 4 of 5, set by Nick Overton.
The most glorious element was seeing the splendour that is AR once more diving. It is difficult to overestimate the effect of an HMS R dive, even reduced by a factor of ten as it is by swimming in a deck level pool. As he entered the water, we all thought back to biblical stories of the parting of the seas. It would be an exaggeration to say that the bottom of the pool was revealed, but not much of one. A certain young lady waited for the back wash to help her climb from the pool, and a certain coach held on tight to the back stroke flag pole. From a dim, distant and almost racial memory came back the nickname HMS. Glorious HMS R. Nobody was singing hymns, but a few were humming.
