Tuesday, November 11
Group Focus's till Christmas
With the great successes on the weekend, there are still a number of things that the group can work on as a whole. Here are my thoughts.
Feel free to write yours down on a sheet of paper so I can help you better.
- feet past the flags in ALL four strokes, and in ALL distances of races
- intensity in races! Always give 100% (or more!)
- Race awareness
- Arriving on time and starting your warm ups every day
- Improving strength and flexibility
- great body position!
- Getting your times all the time in practice. The clock is your friend, so use it!
Feel free to write yours down on a sheet of paper so I can help you better.
Getting ready to go!
Warm Ups are to prepare you for competition and practices.
There are many different ways to prepare. Physically and Mentally they should have you ready to race and practice. You need to do what you need to do to be Physically and Mentally Prepared to Race and Train Hard!
There are many options, but none are about sitting around and pretending to stretch while talking to your team mates. You can start out with stretching, move on to some activation and then finally into the pool where it starts. At meets, you may hit some race pace work but not too much. It's the process that gets you going not necessarily the swimming speed. The deck stuff is just preparation to get you into your warm up as quickly as possible. The deck stuff is for your physical fitness at Millennium or any other pool we train at. Flexibility and Strength and the important things we need in the pool. Also the skipping is there to help you explode off the blocks and the walls. Many more reasons but I think you can figure out my point.
At meets and at practice, the key is to identify what you need to do to be ready the minute you hit the pool or stand on those blocks. So walk onto any pool deck ready to get started with your warm up! Whether you are the leader or the follower you need a warm up.
As a group it is a HUGE area that we can improve on! Lets start today!
There are many different ways to prepare. Physically and Mentally they should have you ready to race and practice. You need to do what you need to do to be Physically and Mentally Prepared to Race and Train Hard!
There are many options, but none are about sitting around and pretending to stretch while talking to your team mates. You can start out with stretching, move on to some activation and then finally into the pool where it starts. At meets, you may hit some race pace work but not too much. It's the process that gets you going not necessarily the swimming speed. The deck stuff is just preparation to get you into your warm up as quickly as possible. The deck stuff is for your physical fitness at Millennium or any other pool we train at. Flexibility and Strength and the important things we need in the pool. Also the skipping is there to help you explode off the blocks and the walls. Many more reasons but I think you can figure out my point.
At meets and at practice, the key is to identify what you need to do to be ready the minute you hit the pool or stand on those blocks. So walk onto any pool deck ready to get started with your warm up! Whether you are the leader or the follower you need a warm up.
As a group it is a HUGE area that we can improve on! Lets start today!
Poppy Meet Recap
Poppy was a great success. It was the first time where most of the group was competing on the same weekend. We did a great job of being aware of when swimmers from within the group were racing and it was nice to see you supporting the new and younger members of the club. Also welcome to racing with Senior Development to Breanne and Piper. Both girls we very successful in their first meets with Silver Tide.
This year for meets I am going to do my summaries a little different. I will give out swims of the meet, a swimmer of the meet and a OOPs of the meet.
Swim (s) of the Meet
- Matt Whiteside- 50 Breast. Taking off 7 seconds along with 100% best times in all of his races.
- Paulo for his ability to race. It is very nice to see! I was very impressed with his 50 Fly and Free and his ability to do great under waters.
-Connor for his 200 IM which is an indication of all the hard work he has been putting in on all 4 strokes.
Swimmer (s) of the Meet
Swimmer of the meet goes out to Marielle Froese. 100& best times . Some others did as well. Marielle looked fantastic over the whole weekend, using her new technique in freestyle to swim to huge best times in all free events. More impressive was her ability to split her races perfectly.
OOPS however goes out to everyone!!! for the horrible state we left our team area in both days. We were the dirtiest club there and we are the ones that should be setting the example. I talked to everyone about this after Saturday and then Sunday it was even worse! Thank goodness some of the swimmers stayed to help clean up the area, those who didn't owe them and the parents involved a big thank you for cleaning up your pigsty (From all the coaches and parents)
100% Best Times:
Marielle, Lauren, Matt
This year for meets I am going to do my summaries a little different. I will give out swims of the meet, a swimmer of the meet and a OOPs of the meet.
Swim (s) of the Meet
- Matt Whiteside- 50 Breast. Taking off 7 seconds along with 100% best times in all of his races.
- Paulo for his ability to race. It is very nice to see! I was very impressed with his 50 Fly and Free and his ability to do great under waters.
-Connor for his 200 IM which is an indication of all the hard work he has been putting in on all 4 strokes.
Swimmer (s) of the Meet
Swimmer of the meet goes out to Marielle Froese. 100& best times . Some others did as well. Marielle looked fantastic over the whole weekend, using her new technique in freestyle to swim to huge best times in all free events. More impressive was her ability to split her races perfectly.
OOPS however goes out to everyone!!! for the horrible state we left our team area in both days. We were the dirtiest club there and we are the ones that should be setting the example. I talked to everyone about this after Saturday and then Sunday it was even worse! Thank goodness some of the swimmers stayed to help clean up the area, those who didn't owe them and the parents involved a big thank you for cleaning up your pigsty (From all the coaches and parents)
100% Best Times:
Marielle, Lauren, Matt
Wednesday, November 5
Please Subscribe!!!
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Thanks Kellie
Thanks Kellie
November 11 Practice Change
On November 11th only Senior and Senior Development swimmers will be swimming all others have the day off.
The AM practice is at the regular scheduled time for Senior and Step up swimmers.
In the afternoon both groups will have dryland starting at 4:15 and will swim from 5:15-7:00pm.BE THERE!
The AM practice is at the regular scheduled time for Senior and Step up swimmers.
In the afternoon both groups will have dryland starting at 4:15 and will swim from 5:15-7:00pm.BE THERE!
Friday, October 31
Saskatoon
Brendan, Connor, Sierra, Robyn, Ryan, Allison and Liam made the trip to Saskatoon for the first away swim meet of the year. From the meet came a number of great swims, lots of learning about were each and everyone of you are at early in this swim season. Make sure you walk away from every meet knowing what you have done well and what you can do to make yourself better.
Now those swimmers know where they are at and can better assess the goals that they have for the year. I am going to be doing another round of goal setting after everyone has been to a meet. Most likely after Poppy.
Now those swimmers know where they are at and can better assess the goals that they have for the year. I am going to be doing another round of goal setting after everyone has been to a meet. Most likely after Poppy.
Sunday, October 19
Oct 20- 25
News for this week.
Blog now up and running. If you check the blog can you sign up as a group member (section on right of blog). If you do this, you will get any updates of information that I add to my blog sent to you, that way you will not miss anything.
Their will be no swimming Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week as the top two groups are away at Saskatoon.
We had a great start to racing yesterday. New qualifying times, best times and a great sign of things to come.
Blog now up and running. If you check the blog can you sign up as a group member (section on right of blog). If you do this, you will get any updates of information that I add to my blog sent to you, that way you will not miss anything.
- New to the blog this year! A calendar! I am new to using it. The swim schedule is just for Senior Development. Senior Step up make sure you know which practices are different for you.
Their will be no swimming Thursday, Friday and Saturday this week as the top two groups are away at Saskatoon.
We had a great start to racing yesterday. New qualifying times, best times and a great sign of things to come.
Wednesday, October 15
Emails
Senior Development Families
Can you please send me your emails so I can add you all as subscribers to the blog.
Thank you
Kellie
Can you please send me your emails so I can add you all as subscribers to the blog.
Thank you
Kellie
Saturday, October 11
Best Times
Best times are available in MYswimming.ca
Go to www.swimming.ca home page
Sign up for MySwimming account by clicking on the Sign up button near the bottom center of the home page
Fill out required fields and click on Create Account at the bottom
Open Account and click on My Swimmers tab
Click on Add a Swimmer
Fill out info on swimmer including Date of Birth, click on Search (it will only find swimmers if all fields are exact match to the database - names, birthday etc)
Click on Add This Swimmer
Go to Reports tab, select swimmer and season (2007-2008 for last year), click on show – seasonal best times are at the bottom.
All the times for that year are posted and by clicking on any one time you can see more info on that race and result.
Go to www.swimming.ca home page
Sign up for MySwimming account by clicking on the Sign up button near the bottom center of the home page
Fill out required fields and click on Create Account at the bottom
Open Account and click on My Swimmers tab
Click on Add a Swimmer
Fill out info on swimmer including Date of Birth, click on Search (it will only find swimmers if all fields are exact match to the database - names, birthday etc)
Click on Add This Swimmer
Go to Reports tab, select swimmer and season (2007-2008 for last year), click on show – seasonal best times are at the bottom.
All the times for that year are posted and by clicking on any one time you can see more info on that race and result.
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