HAPPY 2019

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 well, but we fail to listen to the MESSAGE.  Any thoughts let me know!

I just finished reading an article that I would like to share with you that seems appropriate 50 years later. In 1968 Apollo 8 was just finishing an orbit around the 🌙 during this week.   Upon coming out out of the dark side and seeing the “earth rise”, author Robert Kurson gave this account of the astronauts view.

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To Anders, 🌏 Earth appears as a Christmas tree ornament, hung radiant blue and swirling white in an endless black night. From here, it was no longer to pick our countries or even continents, all a person could see was earth, and it occurred to Anders, in this last week of 1968, this terrible year for America and the world, that once you couldn’t see boundaries, you started to see something different.  You saw how small the planet is, how close all of us are to one another, how the only thing any one of us really has, in an empty universe, is each other.  As Apollo 8  and around the limb of the moon🌙  and readied to reconnect with home, it seemed to Anders so strange—the astronauts had come all this way to discover the moon, and yet here they had discovered earth🌏 .”

APOLLO 8  December 21,1968 to December 27, 1968

Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, William Anders 

Happy 2019