SwimSwam wants to give you an inside look at what a normal day-in-the-life looks like for any given swimmer, and how that differs from team to team or city to city. We send our head of production, Coleman Hodges, to be a fly on the wall at practice, then relay what he discovered back to you over pancakes. Or at least breakfast.
Here’s the deal. I filmed Practice + Pancakes with Team Elite on Tuesday morning. Then I went to get pancakes. There were leftovers. I then proceeded to take the 5, to the 405, to the 101, and ended up at the tail end of a USC taper practice with a group of their postgrads who were gearing up for World Champs.
This included sprinting savant Vlad Morozov, Swedish swiss army knife Louise Hansson, and 2016 Olympic champ in the 200 breast Dmitriy Balandin. Like I said, I was only able to catch the last hour of practice, and they didn’t do a ton when I was there: mostly just max efforts on chords. But lets be real. Who doesn’t want to see fast swimmers swimming fast?
Bungees always made me nervous for the following reasons…
1. I would slip and get dragged back to the block hitting every pole in the way
And
2. The cord would snap from the block end and give me a lashing in a dangerous body region
Cool to see Ous still at it
Coleman, I really appreciated The Californians SNL skit reference. Thank you.
Ous should have done a few more laps after watching him yesterday in the 10k
Not a great swim, but he should have a pretty good chance to qualify next year via the 1-per-continent selections.
I had a brief discussion about this with his coaches, and that was his goal for this race
Hey Coleman. What’s the name of the song in the video?
A 35 year old man busts a 1:50 in the 10k and you see fit to bag on him.
well, would rather do that than the distance set
“Long sprints” = 500s. Geez.
Salo says everyone is a sprinter at heart and should swim like one – spring, mid-spring and long sprint – there is no “distance.”
My college team had short sprint, long sprint, and “endurance speed” and followed a good amount of Salo’s philosophies
What college did you attend Dcswim?
Hilarious. Vlad was generating so much power, the cord sling-shotted on top of him when it was released on the first round.
I would’ve torn my labrum and rotator cuff both arms simultaneously attempting that ring maneuver