Shoe love

[triman]

I swam at Barton Springs last night, almost empty at 7pm, did a nice steady mile working on stroke, form, breathing and finishing strong. Turns out there was a formal blessing for Barton Springs by 6-genuine Tibetan Monks going on at the pool, all the local news crews where there, and so it seemed like a bit of a demonstration swim as there were a

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Very very cool

[effendi]

Nice swim form, and it sounds like the run form is much improved with the new shoes!

Re: Very very cool

[triman]

the real test will come at CapTex and the end of May, the question is how will my form hold after a hard bike?

I noticed yesterday that I'd started to slip back into sloppy running, I need to focus on stride distance etc. in the same way you do in the pool for stroke form routines.

You are not doing the Shiner ride are you ??

Nope

[effendi]

no shiner.

I find setting my watch to beep 1 minute every 15 gives me a little wake up to measure / improve my leg turnover.

somehow I knew you'd be there

[anetmarie]

when I saw the bit on the blessing on the news, I figured you were probably swimming then. That's really cool. And what great swim form! Hope your shoes are a help to you. Alas, I won't be able to be there for the Rookie cheering squad - I will be at my TriZones Team Leader post that morning. By the time we are done, you'll probably be eating lunch somewhere.. You'll do fine. From what I remember about doing Rookie last year, coming out of T1 there is an uphill, so going out with shoes on bike is pretty tricky. You have enough practice that it probably won't be an issue. This means, the finish of the bike is downhill! WHEE!

great picture!!

[anonymous]

That is really cool... I agree with all the above comments, including the 'form looks good' one.

Pegggggy

[mizmizuno]

LOVE the photo! I can't believe it's you. How awesome that you found it, too. :D

I am so excited you found something that at least initially is working great! I hope this helps you to be even more the triathlete you are capable of being.

Yay swimming and good runs and Barton Springs and Austin! ♥

[triman]

>>How awesome that you found it, too

To be honest, I didn't find it, on the way out I talked to a couple of the photographers, one said they'd almost certainly use on of the pictures in a slideshow :-)

The more interesting thing is the video on the Fox news website, I can been swimming on the far side, its hard to believe the pool was that empty. There was no restriction on swimming, maybe most folks were just put off by the whole thing and left...
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/tibetan-monks-bless-barton-springs-pool/3582392037