“WIN”. What’s Important Now

PUNCTUALITY  This is a very touchy subject, but one that I think needs to be addressed.   It was funny on Saturday morning watching Peter walk through the doors for practice, and then talking to him afterwards about this issue.   At what point did society come to accept that being late is acceptable?  Now. as I work through this I do understand that traffic and school have a direct effect on parent’s schedules,  so this is directed toward those AM swimmers (including Saturday) who arrive late and then have no urgency to get started, or the ones who are there but decide that since practice starts at 6:30, that is the time they should start to get ready.  As Peter said this morning when I said he was “GRUMPY”   , "I was not grumpy when I walked into the building, but swimmers who are sitting around in sweats when it is time to be in the water make me grumpy." Peter hit it right on the nail   , because the last two examples of swimmers from above are the ones who drive

Last weekend was our first chance to see    where we are at this point in the season, and a lot of the swimmers from the Senior Prep, Junior 1, and Junior 2 groups turned in numerous personal best’s   .   I do know that some of you may not have been happy with your results, but we do need to keep it all in perspective.   What I mean by that is that since around December 20 and up until January 2 a lot of us have not been on a normal schedule (unless you kept a normal swimming schedule including the holidays), and that is larger than a lot of you think.   For the Senior prep and Junior 2 groups the workouts are set up so that you are not out of the water for more than 2 days straight, because there is a strong belief that after 48 hours an athlete starts losing some of their conditioning.   For myself I am normally in the pool    M-W-F and if I miss one of those days the next time I hit the water I feel very tired   , slow (no comments I know you think I am already slow) and just mise