Saturday Off - Sunday On
Aug
1Saturday Off - Sunday On
Posted by Kevin Doak on Saturday at: 5:58pm (August 1st, 2009)
I had a great practice at Canham Natatorium (U of M) on Friday morning. I'm feeling like I've tuned up some of my strokes well with a lighter workload of under 4,000 meters per day. At least one set per practice focuses on variable sprints. I really enjoy these sets. They're typically. 8x50's on the 1:00 and you mix up which parts of the 50 meters you swim all out fast. I typically do 1/3rd Fast, 1/3rd easy and 1/3rd Fast. I'll mix up the strokes every few 50's.
I'm taking the day off today for an adventure in Ohio and I'm back in the pool tomorrow to continue my taper for Long Course Nationals starting Thursday!
I got an mass email from the meet director mentioning that everybody's 6th event has been dropped (200 backstroke in my case) and that there are 1,200 swimmers registered! From the sounds of it, this could be the most populous meet I've ever attended! I think its fantastic that there are over 1,000 people in America with jobs, families or both that keep swimming and fitness a priority as well as make the sacrifices to come compete nationally! I keep wondering how many swimmers will wear the newly banned suits. I don't think Masters swimming has made an announcement yet but they typically follow FINA. I'm sure people will want to squeeze every drop out those expensive body suits regardless of their banned future.
I'm taking the day off today for an adventure in Ohio and I'm back in the pool tomorrow to continue my taper for Long Course Nationals starting Thursday!
I got an mass email from the meet director mentioning that everybody's 6th event has been dropped (200 backstroke in my case) and that there are 1,200 swimmers registered! From the sounds of it, this could be the most populous meet I've ever attended! I think its fantastic that there are over 1,000 people in America with jobs, families or both that keep swimming and fitness a priority as well as make the sacrifices to come compete nationally! I keep wondering how many swimmers will wear the newly banned suits. I don't think Masters swimming has made an announcement yet but they typically follow FINA. I'm sure people will want to squeeze every drop out those expensive body suits regardless of their banned future.