Vellner not holding back on Event 6/7 programming

[anonymous258]

From his latest recap post, a couple good quotes:
"...he (Dave) assured us that they were very different. They weren't."
"... They obviously neglected to test these workouts, like at all."

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[grace4nan]

@anonymous258 Yepp.

It also pretty much confirms that almost all of them got the shits from the lake.

 

[tmaries]

@grace4nan Guy at my gym was one of the Neuromuscular athletes at the Games. He was like you know neuromuscular people have trouble swimming right? He also says the water was super gross looking.

 

[st333333]

@tmaries Wait, adaptive athletes swam??

 

[digofanart]

@st333333 Yep.

 

[little_sparrow]

@grace4nan its part of the whole unknown and unknowable thing - can you clean while holding back a big shit?

also, re: their being the same events; a cursory look at the Men's leaderboard for both events (you can look yourself) suggests that your result in IE6 was a big predictor for result in IE7, e.g., Adler got 1st in IE6, 2nd in IE7;

there did seem some outliers e.g., Travis Mayer got 3rd in IE6, but then 21st in IE7. just listened to his podcast though, could be down to him wearing Reeboks to try to get a win and messing up technique.

I'd say that if they wanted to make IE6 and IE7 sufficiently 'different' they really should have upped the reps and decreased the weights on IE6 (maybe like a 10/8/6/4/2 style), and then decreased the reps and increased the weights on IE7, but only added a run for IE7 and not IE6.

I think that would have made them sufficiently interestingly different. but hey, I fully anticipate Dave to come out against Pat and tell him why on some arbitrary reason only he knows and understands why they're different events.

 

[grace4nan]

@little_sparrow People will die-rrhea for points!

 

[carnox]

@grace4nan Yeah…I live in Madison. We have blue-green algae every year in those lakes. They’re pretty gross.

 

[maddieh567]

@carnox Ugh. Do people there regularly swim in them? Does the city publish daily water quality ratings?

 

[worshiplife]

@maddieh567 Also live in Madison. Hardly anyone swims in Lake Monona (the one they same in) unless you are out in the middle of the lake and jumping off of a boat. No way I would swim in the lake where they did.

 

[maddieh567]

@worshiplife Ugh that's too bad. Pretty unfair. I mean it's a great event but surely there's a cleaner lake around?

 

[dawn16]

@maddieh567 Or a pool..

 

[noname5137]

@dawn16 Or just fly them out somewhere (or be significantly less dramatic) on one of the competition days. They did that one year to go to the farm.

 

[worshiplife]

@maddieh567 Nothing too close. All of the lakes surrounding Madison are pretty disgusting.

 

[siloah04]

@worshiplife Did a 2k open water swim near the downtown area of Monona, the water was sickly warm on the top 4 inches but no problems other than that.

 

[betelo995]

@siloah04 4 inches is 10.16 cm

 

[carnox]

@maddieh567 There aren’t a ton of public beaches so most of the swimming is from boaters jumping in.

And not sure about daily, but I would guess yes

 

[nedi]

@grace4nan I'm surprised none of them grew an extra arm after the swim.

 

[veve13]

@grace4nan The swim/paddle events are so boring to me. I didn't even bother watching this year.

 

[sanders1031]

@anonymous258 These recaps are both insightful and actually hilarious. Turns out Vellner is a great writer. What can’t this guy do?? (Besides swimming)