Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These days, as I gear up for my commute every Tuesday through Friday, waiting for the 9:22 train to Penn Station, the oppressive heat brings me back to those midwinter convictions, and I often wonder how someone as stubborn as myself could have undergone such a change of heart...
...only April, but already the steamy air hints of the long, hot summer and the big, nasty mosquitoes ahead. A Union Pacific freight train rumbles and clanks along the adjacent railroad tracks--a tortoise to the hares inside Baylor Track Stadium, located in the deceptively named Beverly Hills area of Waco, Texas. It is a place with streets so mean that God would probably hesitate before parking here. It is the place where the greatest athlete in the world trains...
...reason was to make Johnson train even harder, extend himself even further, then that bad clam or whatever it was in Salamanca succeeded. Ever since Barcelona, Johnson has been on a mission to prove himself the fastest in the world in both the 200 and the 400. To the uninitiated, the 200/400 double sounds no more difficult than the more common 100/200 or 400/800 combinations. "The 200 and 400 are totally different animals," says Hart. If the 200 is a race that goes to the swiftest, the 400 goes to the smartest and strongest. Johnson, in fact, embodies those superlatives...
That lasted three months. Then she moved her studies from Stanford to U.S.C. and hooked up with coach Schubert, who suggested that 1) being one of the two or three best distance swimmers in the world was not disgraceful; and 2) it might be possible to train seriously and still have, of all things, a life. It worked. Swimming became fun again, Evans says now. Schubert set her to training against his men swimmers. She loves this. Her freestyle pace is close to what Brad Bridgewater, the 200-m winner at the Olympic trials, does in the backstroke...
...Airways, Branson's iconoclastic transatlantic carrier, adds the lucrative Washington-London route to its expanding U.S. service. Virgin Publishing is poised to snag American book readers. In Europe, Branson is starting up a cut-price airline, Virgin Express; he's part of a group taking over the ailing Eurostar train service under the English Channel; he has launched an over-the-phone life-insurance and health-insurance business in Britain called Virgin Direct; and his new British mutual fund is going gangbusters. As if all this weren't enough to keep him busy, in November he hopes to fly around...