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Workout: Coaches Stephanie and Katherine have a favorite workout that they grew up on themselves while swimming for Harvard. swimmers know it simply as the "Fifty 100s." The details: alternation between a pair of 100-meter sprints and pair of 50-meter sprints, with the former getting faster and faster each time and the short pieces getting slower each time, until 28 lengths are over, at which point the process repeats itself in reverse, with the 50s getting faster and the 100s getting slower. Get that? The end result is three grueling miles...
Unruly spectators aside, Head of the Charles is truly a coxswain's race. Unlike the shorter 2,000 meter races in the spring where crews start from a dead stop and race even with another boat in a straight line, Head of the Charles requires some serious strategy. Not only do crews have to navigate the numerous turns, but they also need to deal with passing boats that have left before and after...
...well-arranged it was easy to ignore their startling edges of regret and emotional maturity. Discovering his work last year for the first time, I found myself caught up in the sensitivity of his songs, which could pack an lifetime of hurt into a flip rhyme and an abrupt meter change. Only Bacharach, for instance, could interpose the cheerful mood of "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" with its underlying theme of disillusionment and the unspoken death of big dreams; while the arrangement glistens with organ bursts and the light trace of strings, the tragic subtext plays...
Since setting that mark, no other female sprinter has come closer than 10.60. And at the Seoul Olympics, where she won three gold medals, she ran the 200 meter dash in 21.34 seconds, setting another seemingly unbreakable record. Only one other woman (Marion Jones at 21.62) has ever run 200 meters in less than 21.70 seconds...
...three resulting man-up situations translated into three MIT goals, and with 45 seconds to go before the half, the Engineers had cut the lead to 6-5 and were threatening to tie the game. Only a gorgeous sweep shot by Zimmerman from the 2-meter position salvaged a 7-5 lead going into the half...