We are here! After a 3 hour 20 minute drive, T2 Aquatics Seniors have arrived in Islamorada. We had a quick shopping trip, followed by training at the Founder's Park Pool. Photos of the pool will be posted at some point soon. The pool is nice, and the water temp is much warmer than it was two years ago.
After our training session, we had our first dinner "out" at Bentley's Restaurant, and made it back to the hotel by 10pm. It was a LONG day.
Aside from the fact that our training sessions in the afternoons are very late most days (6-8pm), leading into an early morning (6-8am) -- all is setting up nicely. ....and although the training times could be better, we like having an opportunity to deal with adversity. This is our chance! You know when else you have these sorts of hours, athletically-speaking? At the Olympics, Olympic Trials, World Championships....pretty much any International Meet. You don't get back to your hotel/village room until very late after taking a bus and eating in a dining hall at 9:30pm. It's just the way it goes. This trip will prepare us for the true Olympic Experience given our early to rise/late to bed options.
Certainly, it will make for some needed nap time during the middle of the day as well.
Tomorrow we have two training sessions, and dinner "in". I plan to assign a group of athletes the task of making dinner for the entire group....and we will "dig in" as a team.
More to come at different points during the week, so check back.
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