...I am starting to love backstroke too! The problem is that I go straight only when I have all the lane for me. In practice I fear to crash into somebody, I start to look frenetically down and I end overcompensating one way or the other.
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ahelee Sue Osborn Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 1:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CHAMPIONSHIP #5 WON BY NOVA MASTERS!! You should have asked me to look at your backstroke as well Kate...! I LOVE BACKSTROKE! A coach from another team asked me as I was standing behind the blocks waiting to swim my own 100 backstroke race, if the Nova Masters have a "thing for backstroke". I looked at the heat in front of me and there were 4 NOVA swim caps in the lanes. More in the next heat too! It reinforced my own philosophy that if a coach is pretty excited about something on deck in practices every day, lots (not all) of the athletes in the pool will get on board! Thanks to the open hearted and game to try it swimmers this past season! We made HUGE progress as a team since last year's SCM Championships! GO NOVA! Ahelee On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Kate (aka Blondie) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you Ahelee and Mike for being on deck the whole time, cheering and coaching us on! And special thanks to Ahelee for greatly improving my breastroke at the very last minute during warm up. All your suggestions and pointers made the difference! I cut 2.2 seconds off my 50 breast time from last year and only .2 seconds off my backstroke time from last year....guess I'm a breastroker! (And oh yeah, there's also the fact that I swam a 46.6 on my 50 Breast and a 47.7 something on my 50 back -- honestly, who swims a faster breastroke than backstroke? I do!) it was a lot of fun, for sure!
