"Summer is about to get funner; just add water."
First week jitters are out of the way and now we can really focus on this short summer season. Hopefully most of your races went well last week although I’m sure a few of us probably got punched in the face with a little reality. It’s okay because if your reading this you got back up and you live on to race another day. One day, one meet, one race does not define you.
Summer league warmups are like a roaring stampede for 20 minutes and what are we really accomplishing during this madness. First off as our swimmers started we told them to make sure there is water in the pool, the lane lines are in, the flags are up and lets not forget two walls (start and turns) and at the end end of warmups if we have all that, we can race with anyone.
where there mis-steps once the meet started, absolutely, but hey that's life throwing us a lesson to learn from. One of the best lines from yesterday was, "My Goggles Betrayed Me". Coach Mike they were fine and all I had was "until the beep." Another one was "My Turn" and I said was it was the turn that wasn't. We know what we did so lets work on it this week. The very last one was that "the water felt extra thick" well than that was a truly awesome effort because you moved through it with relative ease.
Every athlete has low and high points and the best part of just being an athlete is the fact that your glow-up meet is coming and your revenge race is loading as we speak, your moment is imminent and yes we still have practice tomorrow with all those kick sets.
Summer league is a very short season but the lessons and the memories will last you a lifetime. Keep showing up and encouraging your teammates because your next breakthrough might be waiting with the next race and one encouraging word to a teammate may help them breakthrough on their next week.
NUTRITION CORNER
As you are running around and making memories at your summer meets always remember to fuel your body and hydrate to keep your energy up and wear sunscreen.
SPEED TECHNIQUE SET FROM LAST WEEK
3 rounds of 4
12x25 (dolphin turn 25)
4 cones are at all 10 meter marks from each wall
Swim into wall turn. Fast turn +3 fast strokes smooth to next cone. Stay with same stroke for a set of 4 than you may switch strokes. Into the wall is fast always.
MOVE TO OTHER POOL AND SPREAD OUT
LOCK IN YOUR STREAMLINES AND ON WHISTLE GO DOWN AND EXPLODE OFF THE BOTTOM. HOW HIGH CAN YOU GO? Let? Do 5 good ones. Rest 20 seconds. We go thru this 5 times
Move to other pool in deep end lanes 1 and 6 3 running steps and explode into a dive and swim fast free. FEEL THE BODY MOVEMENT OFF THE DIVE.
TRIVIA ANSWER: A NVSL meet has 420 total points up for grab. First place =5. Second place =3
Third place =1. Relay =5 points for the win. Every team sets out in the morning to get to the magic number of 210.5 which will give them the win.
TRIVIA QUESTION FOR THE WEEK: How fast (MPH) does the average strong swimmer swim?
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