Saturday AM Practices

Saturday Morning: edited with results and comments below:

Nice Job on the 10x200s today everyone.  I kept detailed track a few people who lead the lanes and/or started the set particularly well.

Jack: 215s to 210, 209, 209
Paolo: 217s to 214, 214, 212
Matt: 219-215, 211 on the end
Emma: 223-220, 219, 219, 218, 220
Karen: 223-222, 219, 219, 218, 218, 216

We had times from the low 220s to the high 220s for many of the athletes not mentioned above.

Each of the 6 athletes detailed above were swimming at "plus 12-16" above their 200M PR (not by design, but that's where they all happened to be).  If you did the set and you spent a lot of time at "plus 20" or "plus 23" then you have to set your goals for next time to reflect this type of change and this type of improvement (to be able to train at the +12-16 200M PR level).  The more LCM we do and you do, the less conservatively and more effectively you will train.

We are going to be getting into some more consistent Saturday Am and Monday AM LCM training (compared to the last few weeks), so get ready for more LCM sets.

…And get ready to do some more dive-type stuff LCM over the next few weeks to go along with our conditioning swims!

The 50s at the end were pretty good too.  A few people who didn't swim particularly well on the main set turned it around for the 50s.   That's always good to see.

The 8am practice went well also.  Michelle, Erika, Kayla, Abby, and Davis were at this practice.  I was planning to go Dive 50s with you guys, but went with the dive 100s.  It was very good!  The FINS 50s at the end were well done and effective training….the kind set where you can throw the 100s away and your still got a lot done.

Abby did Free: 104-105-105-105 (last spring we did 3 -- Abby was 108-106-111)
Kayla did Fly: 113-111-111-110
Davis did Free: 103s-and a 102 in the middle

We will be doing some 50s from a dive over the next week or so, so get ready.  We may have a few people shift from 6am to 8am for these practices, and it's also possible that some normal 8am people may shift to 6.  I'll be in touch about that.

Erika and Michelle -- we've talked about going 8x25 (30) at a certain pace….after having done those 8x50s on (1) at the end today, you will breeze through the 25s!

Absent today: KR KH MF AB AB