“WIN”. What’s Important Now

Hope you all are enjoying the holidays, and getting ready to usher in the New Year.  It has been good to see a lot of you make it in to workout over the last week and we hope to see more of you this week before you head back to school.  One of the big things we have been working on over the last week is that crossover turn from back to breast for your IM.  I’ve been ask if you have to use it and the answer to that is YOU need to figure out the turn first  and then decide if it is something that would help YOU.  Our job is to bring these things to you and from that point we can work out a plan The other day as I walked through the men’s room I ease dropped on a conversation where one of our 12 year old made the comment that workout was not that hard.  One of our seniors was explaining that he was exhausted 💤 and you would be if you did it correctly.  The whole goal of the workout was to get in a lot of fast racing and that meant all out.  Sometimes we listen to the messenger really wel

Thank you for all there  generosity that you all showed with the gift certificates, cookies, candy and yes the LARGE music box.  The warm cards from some of the kids meant a lot.  My version of the song Twelve swimmers kicking Eleven empty water bottles Ten bathroom breaks Nine lane line bruises Eight sets with Tempo Trainers Seven Loads of laundry Six best times Five HARD SETS. Four pairs of goggles  Three sets of kicking Two hand paddles One coach on deck HAVE A GREAT HOLIDAY!  See you Wednesday

Today the senior prep group began their holiday training today by building and decorating a tree.  This was meant to be both a physical and mental challenge as we start off the next phase of our season.  All of you responded to this set with great enthusiasm and got through it.  Thank you for all your 😓, your sacrifices, and yes your sweat and 😭 tears.  All of you have and will grow to be great young adults.   Keep up the good work and remember we are setting are standards high and we know each of you have so much more in yourselves.  You just don’t realize it yet, but we will get you there!

What were we trying to accomplish today?  A lot of work with the legs and a lot of fast kicking off the wall.  You all have improved your walls so much over the last three months but we know and believe that you all have so much more to give, you just don’t know it.  We are here to get that out of you!  That little exercise at the end of practice worked on jumping off the wall with some explosive power, getting into that tight streamline, hitting the bottom and using those fast dolphin 🐬 kicks to drive you back to the surface and getting as high as you could before falling back into the pool. All of this is to try and help you use those walls as an advantage and not an obstacle.  I leave you with this in a short course pool your going to hit the wall just maybe your be lucky 🍀 and make that right turn and surprise yourself

I wanted to share with you all something that I read the other day.  The clock is the toughest critic that any swimmer 🏊‍♀️ will ever encounter throughout their career.  Some people read it as simply one ☝️ winner and seven losers.  I pose this question; Why can we not read it as eight winners.  There are more ways one can be a winner besides getting their fingers on the pad first.  So as you read this keep that in mind! The clock.  Doesn’t lie to me.  It doesn’t tell me I’m first when I’m not, doesn’t say “ Nice Swim” if it wasn’t.  It doesn’t care if I’m shaved.  Or tapered.  Or if I’m in an outside lane.  It is a worthy opponent day in, and day out.  It never lets me win, won’t go easy on me.  The clock doesn’t let me off the hook.  But I will beat it. I haven’t yet.  But I will. See yo tomorrow clock!  Just a thought!

With this past weekends Sport Fair Meet now ion our rear view mirror, the first part of our journey comes to a conclusion.  This week we will and have been putting in some different sets which have included games and relays.  It is important to understand that we do need to take this time to re-charge both physically and mentally as we enter into the second part of our journey which will take us through the championship meets in March and April.   This past weekend we arrived at the pool Thursday afternoon with a lot of energy.  The meet started that evening with our distance swimmers who swam some outstanding swims all posting best times to set the tone for the rest of the team entering Fridays events.  First off let us say that everyone did an outstanding job during warmups, arriving on time, getting our lanes, and going through your meet warmups with no help from your coaches.  This went a long ways in preparing you all to swim as fast as you did.  It kept you relaxed as you went

This past weekend we saw a lot of outstanding races from our Senior prep, Junior Gold and Junior Blue groups.  Some qualifying times were made for the Junior Olympic meet in March.   Medals 🥇 and ribbons 🎀 were won by many swimmers 🏊‍♀️ in the groups, but more importantly a lot of improvements were seen not only in that “ all important time” for that instantaneous feedback but for myself I saw some great turns with improving underwater work off those walls.  We saw a lot of you try some new events which is a very important part of this process “always leave a door open” and we saw a great mental approach to the way you raced.  Overall you all were awesome👏  and now we have one more weekend to get through for the rest of you before the first stage of our season ends. “Ke Nako”.  This is the title of a song from the 2010 World Cup 🏟 and the translation to English is simply, “IT’s TIME”. You might want to look it up and maybe listen to it before this weekend.  Time for what; I guess