Post by Peter on Feb 26, 2009 6:31:58 GMT -5
Hope you had a good training week end.
Now That Last Man Standing is sadly no more on the goggle box in the corner, there are only two things worth distracting you from your training, they are:
1. David Attenborough’s new nature programme.
2. Generation Kill (FX late Sunday night), it’s all about boys and toys and military gadgets...
As triathletes you not only swim, bike run but you go to the gym, you do circuits and pilates. You do not have time to watch what the rest of the population deems to be entertaining on the TV as Bruce Springsteen once famously sang “57 Channels and nothing on...” However I hope you picked up on the technical point in the Attenborough programme last week which showed us Salmon swimming up river about to jump over a water fall against a heavy current. The salmon (which will not spawn until it finds the exact place where it was hatched itself 4 years previously even though it may have to travel several thousand miles to get there) propels itself by aero dynamic techniques and actually uses the propulsion against it as a means of leverage forward. I am quite sure that the manufacturers of the LZR suit were thinking about the salmon when they made their new records breaking piece of swim kit (as you know it’s been involved in 90 new world records in the last 9 months alone) so what I think we should do is all dress up as a salmon and then go to Kay and Gary’s endless pool and try out the theory. I am just concerned in case we manage to leap out of the pool onto the floor...
Now That Last Man Standing is sadly no more on the goggle box in the corner, there are only two things worth distracting you from your training, they are:
1. David Attenborough’s new nature programme.
2. Generation Kill (FX late Sunday night), it’s all about boys and toys and military gadgets...
As triathletes you not only swim, bike run but you go to the gym, you do circuits and pilates. You do not have time to watch what the rest of the population deems to be entertaining on the TV as Bruce Springsteen once famously sang “57 Channels and nothing on...” However I hope you picked up on the technical point in the Attenborough programme last week which showed us Salmon swimming up river about to jump over a water fall against a heavy current. The salmon (which will not spawn until it finds the exact place where it was hatched itself 4 years previously even though it may have to travel several thousand miles to get there) propels itself by aero dynamic techniques and actually uses the propulsion against it as a means of leverage forward. I am quite sure that the manufacturers of the LZR suit were thinking about the salmon when they made their new records breaking piece of swim kit (as you know it’s been involved in 90 new world records in the last 9 months alone) so what I think we should do is all dress up as a salmon and then go to Kay and Gary’s endless pool and try out the theory. I am just concerned in case we manage to leap out of the pool onto the floor...