Training Trip Day Two

Day number two of of training trip is underway.  It's 11:30am, and already we have had an action-packed day. 

 

We started with a 6am practice.  Our men did 6500 Meters, and our Women did 6000.  Our main exercise was 40x50 Free on (40) for Men, and 36x50 on (45) for Women.  It went pretty well.  I've got to say, we've never done that set before.  I don't think it was very hard, but certainly the athletes couldn't get away with swimming slow -- due to the shorter rest intervals.  Our men were averaging between 35 and 32 seconds, and our women were between 38 and 34.  Eric Ordaz had decent pulling set before the main series: 4x300 (410) with evens Negative Split (he did 3:19, 3:15 -- both Negative Split).

 

My hope is that we can swim this sort of pace on a set of 100s later in the week.

 

Our postgrads swam a recovery-style workout.  We started the trip (yesterday) with a double, and we are looking at a few doubles coming up....and the post-grad needs are certainly different than the needs of our HS-aged atheltes....so we took it easy today in the pool, and will take the afternoon off today.  Tomorrow we are back to work, and we'll be fresh!

 

We had a big shopping trip today, where each athlete had the chance to buy food for the week (they managed to buy a volleyball as well!).  Next up, we head back to the pool area (Founder's Park), where we will work on our dryland for an hour.  Nap/Free time will follow, and then we will get back to the pool for our 6pm practice.

 

Tonight is Lasangna night!  Thanks to all of our parents who have made the food that we have prepared -- we will be eating our share of it tonight.  I have assigned a few "food captains" for the evening, and they are currently organizing the food for the whole team.

 

Thanks for checking in!  More to come later....