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We took a trip to the Upper East Side early on a Saturday morning, where Asphalt Green was just getting their training week started. In order to accommodate every swimmer on their team, the top group at Asphalt Green trains Saturday-Thursday, with Fridays off.
On this Saturday morning, the group was doing IM work in the form of 200s with pace 50s in between. See full main set below:
3x
- 3×200 IM – Round description below
- #1 (Pink, Pink, Red on 2:50)
- #2(Pink, Red, Red on 3:00)
- #3(Red, Red, Red on 3:20)
- 100 easy 2:00
- 4×50’s primary fast 2:00
- 100 easy 2:00
Is that a pace chart the girl had before the set began?
Coleman’s hair got into a fight with Chuck Norris’ mustache and won.
is there a masters team that trains at that location?
We were there at the shallow end between 6am – 8am. Asphalt Green runs a few dozen Masters practices per week.
beginning he says smack in the upper west side. all the way east, basically in the east river, of the upper east side******
I could not be more wrong. I blame being left handed, I’ve always been terrible with cardinal directions
So you took the train, probably getting off at 86th street. You then walked east past 4 avenues, and every corner street sign said E86 or E87 or E88, etc, not W86 or W87 or W88, etc. I might blame your disorientation on the train ride.
Well, you must take the A Train
Even farther than Harlem to northern Manhattan and maintain
Get off at 181st, and take the escalator
I hope you’re writing this down, I’m gonna test ya later
This is all I have to contribute to this conversation, even though I am going to be in NYC each of the next two weekends.
well played! VERY well played, indeed
still wearing masks tho?
This was actually filmed in January, when masks were much more of a requirement
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/29/covid-deaths-unvaccinated-boosters/
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-05-05/u-s-records-more-than-100-000-new-covid-19-cases-in-a-day
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61301910
And the pool was configured into two 25 yard pools on Saturday mornings. The pool is back to LCM on Saturday morning as well as on other mornings. LCM rules. The pool, unfortunately, is only 20 yards across, so configuring the lanes side to side is impractical.
Covid cases are going up again….read the CDC news
Covid cases are rising…..read the CDC news
When are we going to get practice and pancakes with Mason Makos? produced Lexi Cuomo, Anthony Grimm, Kathrine Helms
I dunno if Makos produced Anthony Grimm. He was on just about every team in NOVA like Machine and NCAP
NoVa native here – he’s a Makos product. He swam for them from at least 8th grade onwards.
Remember that AGUA produced Lia Neal. Unfortunately, P+P didn’t show the pool records board or the AGUA Olympians/OT swimmers banner.
Thats a great tough set. Love seeing a large group going at it together. I think coach has one of the quickest watches in the land though.
DRod is a surgeon with that watch, whatchu talking about?!