Who is your swim buddy??
This is mine:
That’s the one-and-only Dede G, 2x Ironman Champion and 3x Kona top-ten finisher. She’s also a dear friend. She’s one of those people that I felt like I’d known for years way back when we first met as newbie pros in 2005, probably because our formative years spent in frighteningly similar environments—first as club swimmers on opposite coasts, and then as scholarship athletes at rival Pac-Ten universities.
Finally, this summer, she’s my swim buddy. I mentioned that swimming with Siri’s crew is one of the highlights of being in LA; well, Dede is part of Siri’s squad, and this means that we pretty much spend every practice on one another’s feet or literally racing side-by-side in the lane. We are the swim twins. I love it.
This is all to introduce a blog that my swim twin wrote today; I liked it more than anything I had to write, so really just wanted to post a link here, but this has turned into a post in itself . . . .
In her blog today, my swim buddy not only provided a little window into the Siri Swim Smashfests that I’ve been enjoying so much, but she also gave a great illustration of the old swimming days. I have cried in my goggles many, many times . . . Read here.
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Indeed that was a great read! I sent it over to one of my athletes who bitched about her workout yesterday where she missed some of her intervals… So this was perfect!
Glad you’re enjoying your swimming smashfests!
love this , michelle!
I just sent Dede’s blog to a couple of my old swim buddy’s—her description of it is so perfect from the wake up, “guess the set” to the chalkboard to the questioning imminent death to the final goggle cry
So many mornings spent doing that same routine- making me miss my swim buddy’s!
How i nodded my head reading Deede’s post. I only learnt to swim in my 30′s and promptly jumped into masters training after that. I thought I was the only one trying to guess the sets, not completing the sets or dreading the whiteboard!!!!
It turns out I’m not alone!:-)
What’s amazing about that piece Dede wrote on her blog is it reminds me of one of the lead up interviews that they do for Kona every year. Where she starts talking about the voices. Classic. Where’s she’s shaking her hands and saying, “just stop the voices”. Cheers to Dede and Cheers to you Hillary. I tried finding video but failed. I’m such a failure. See how easy it is. HA!
just walk a little….just a little
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