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DISTANCE  MEET INFORMATION This week end our groups will have 27 swimmers attending the distance meet swimming either the 1650 or the 1000 free at LEE DISTRICT POOL.  Look at this event as a challenge and a great way to start off the new year.  If you would like to opt out feel free to join me at SANDY STATE PARK for the POLAR BEAR swim on THURSDAY. A few of you asked how to swim this, and the first thing is to attack  it similar to a 500, but just a little more conservatively.  first thing start out as relax as possible and be sure to BREATHE a lot in the first 100 (every 3 or 2-3-2). For the first 200 try to settle into a good rhythm and holding a straight line.  Stay away from circle swimming, stay on your center line.  Avoid looking at the counter on every lap, instead concentrate on keeping a long smooth stroke, with power full turns and getting as much as you can from each wall. Check numbers when you need to and reassess as you go along; How am I feeling?  Can I hold thi

NEW YEAR COMMITMENT

 I WOULD LIKE TO WISH ALL OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES A HAPPY NEW YEAR. It was great to see a lot of our group make the effort over the holidays to get to the old water hole for practice   .   The effort that you all made will show in the next few weeks as we move into the next phase of our season, which is the meat and potatoes    portion of. the training cycle all ending with    whatever championship meet you qualify for in March.   Now with 2014 behind us it is time to look forward and re dedicate our efforts in and out of the pool to put you in the best position to succeed in this sport.    As your work load in the pool increases during this period, so do the demands in school with the end of the quarter and all the midterm exams, reports, and projects   .   It is important that you plan accordingly and keep on top of things.   This involves getting extra rest    when you can, making your workouts on  schedule (a missed workout is a missed workout), being mentally prepared for ea
Please read this article from Annie Grevers in Swimming World . 5 Ways to Turn Christmas Training Fear into Cheer By Annie Grevers TUCSON – The Christmas Training season can certainly create some anxiety for a swimmer as the standard routine of swim-school-swim-homework-sleep suddenly becomes wide open. Instead of fearing the added training opportunities, you can learn to embrace them. 5 Ways to Turn Christmas Training Fear into Cheer 1) Oh what fun it is to train on a school-free, open day! How often do you get to devote all your energies to your favorite sport? Never. Take advantage of this break from scholastic curriculum and exercise the brain as you stare down that black line in your lane. Christmas training is not often lumped in with our favorite holiday traditions, but the novelty of swimming without the stress of school is to be celebrated. The best swimmers do not just log laps. They think about every angle of every portion of every stroke they
FRIDAY DECEMBER 19 As we enter into this holiday season it just so happens that we have come to the end of the first training phase that  I designed for our groups back in August. I have spent this week looking back over the plan to see what kind of adjustments need to be done as we move forward.  I will also take some time the next 2 weeks to review everyone goal sheets to see where we stand as we move forward into cycle 2 of the program.We actually started cycle two of our program this past Monday and even though it was different for each group there was a little more emphasis put on drills.  As we talked about we will be doing a couple of drills for each strokes during the next few weeks as we get ready to enter into the heavy training cycle leading up to the March championship season.  Senior Prep swimmers please remember we have some high school swimmers who will begin their championship seasons at the end of January. I know as the holiday season comes around a lot of you thin
THURSDAY  DECEMBER 4 TODAY's THOUGHT  MISTAKES We have spent a lot of time the past few weeks talking about fixing the little things at practice.  We have talked about taking the advice (constructive criticism) that is given to you after a race back to the pool and working on correcting it. These little things could  include any of the following; having a breathing pattern, not  breathing last 5 yards into turns or  first stroke coming out of your turns, aggressive swimming in and out of turns, and finishing strong into walls.  Looking over my notes from  the swim and rock meet there are some other things that need our attention such as; aggressive breakouts and pull outs, having some good FAST distance under water off the walls especially the first one .  When breathing in breast and fly events we need to think forward movement instead of up and down.  The last note that we can all work on is tighter streamlines. Setting up your practice is always a challenge as I try
TUESDAY DECEMBER 2 PRACTICES :  All will be held as normal except Saturday morning which is cancelled due to the meet. MAKO INVITATIONAL: WARM- UP TIMES SATURDAY 11-12 (7:00-7:35) 10 AND UNDER (11:25-11:55) 13 AND OVER (2:55-3:35)     SUNDAY 11-12 (7:00-7:35)  10 AND UNDERS (10:45-11:15)  13 AND OVERS (2:40- 3:10) POSITIVE CHECK IN SATURDAY 200 FREE/200 BREAST/ 200 FLY   SUNDAY 200 IM/ 200 BREAST ATTIRE:   Only Mako caps are to be worn during the meet!!  You have no choice except not to swim.  I am getting tired of seeing other caps, and by the way I don't have one is a excuse and they are easy to come up with  PACKING A BAG FOR A SWIM MEET SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING TEAM SUIT : always bring a spare, this may be the meet where it rips TEAM CAP:   again bring extras they rip TEAM UNIFORM:   wear your team tee on deck and show your spirit, bring a sweatshirt also to stay warm on the pool deck GOGGLES: again bring extras.  I have seen many break right before a race.