Holiday Training Trip to Ann Arbor Michigan coming up!

Saturday was Race Pace as usual.  The sprint group had a 3 round set with some abstract distances which ultimately prevented any useful times from being reported besides the last 25y.  Overall I swam respectable times.  I kept up with others on the underwater kicking but I was consistenty touched out by U of M's :47.5 backstroker.  I really want to dominate that underwater kicking and I'm taking the correct steps lately to make that happen.

The holiday training schedule looks manageable thus far.  The pool is open all week for 2 hour sessions at least once a day, who knows for the week after that.  I've received some invites to train with a few local teams which I may combine with some light motivational speaking and instructional time as well.  I've always enjoyed giving back to the swim community.  I've been hoarding some of the CW workouts in my locker as I prepare to train alone for 2.5 weeks beginning on Wednesday.  Although it's not a big change from my recent workout situation, it's still a bit different than at least having others in the pool area training at the same time.  The benefit during this time will be that I can train in the main competition pool each day.  I'm really hoping either the pool manager and/or I can set up the pool long course.  It's been weeks since I've been able to train anything but short course yards.  I have some great VO2 Max sets planned for the holiday break!