Comments on: … swing

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:45:49 +0000

I had the opportunity to run “marla-pace” too with the little wispit post college. I sicked her on my husband to be, a Div I All American when he moved to N.C. with me, and he even complained about running with her! The three of us use to try to outrun the 3-legged black dog. Marla would surge ahead so we would be left behind to contend with him.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:02:42 +0000

It makes me think of the day I set a big recent PR in the 5K. I’d been on the track doing speed work with the kids. I went out comfortably quick and hit the first mile in a time that startled me. I checked the watch to see if the clock was wrong, it wasn’t. I figured that since I felt OK, I’d keep moving and see if the blow up I now expected was coming. At two, the clock was similarly good. As I approached 3, a guy who I’d passed a couple of hundred yards prior came by. I couldn’t go with him. I tried, but it wasn’t there. Still, I popped off a PR by a big margin. I think that’s about as close as running gets to the “swing.”

By: pjm

pjm — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:21:44 +0000

There’s another rowing book, “The Shell Game” by Stephen Kiesling (if I’m remembering the name correctly) with a similar good description of swing, and arriving at it. One of his chapter-ending lines goes something like, “My idea of hell is sitting on a stagnant lake with seven novices in a boat with no swing.”