I have absolutely no idea why, but livin' la vida loca sends me into overdrive. My fastest lap of any swim happens when that song comes on. It's not the fastest song on my playlist or even the only Ricky Martin song, but it's the only one that can drop my 100 yd pace by a solid 15 seconds when I'm running on empty.
Does anyone else experience this? What song/songs?
There is an annual marathon swim held in my city, and I have the same thought every year when it pops up on the open water sites: there's no way the people registering are locals.
There are about a hundred reasons why I think that's the case (one for every car they found during a TWO HOUR dive around the city) but the point is, I cannot imagine getting in that water.
Which got me thinking. Do you guys put any thought into what is 15 feet beneath you when picking races? Do you look into that sort of thing? Does it impact the races you choose, or are you of the mind that what you don't know or can't see won't hurt you?