Pre-Florida Training

It has been quite a busy month. Not only did we have the Christmas break (and all the cookies that go along with it) I purchased and moved into my first house. It has monopolized a majority of my time and I feel as though I have neglected my loyal blog readers (Mr. E). Don't worry ... I will make it up to you.

We arrived back on campus on the 28th and our pool was a bit chilly and remained not super warm until our last practice this morning. It inspired the rallying cry "Florida on Friday". (as we are taking our training trip to Cocoa Beach from the 2nd - 10th ... more on that in future posts).

I was fairly pleased with the overall conditioning of the team ... a few could be in better shape, but the majority showed up ready to go. We finished out the mini-training camp with the not so famous set ... "Swim until you die"

Here is how you do it ... swim a distance (for us it was 100's) at a starting interval (for us it was 2:00) and subtract :01 from the interval after each one until failure.

Here are the intervals / send offs for all my coaching homeslices (mike laubacher) Hope the spacing is okay.

(X:XX) <:YY>
X = interval
Y = send off

2:00<:00>
1:59<:59>
1:58<:57>
1:57<:54>
1:56<:50>
1:55<:45>
1:54<:39>
1:53<:32>
1:52<:24>
1:51<:15>
1:50<:05>
1:49<:54>
1:48<:42>
1:47<:29>
1:46<:15>
1:45<:00>
1:44<:44>
1:43<:27>
1:42<:09>
1:41<:50>
1:40<:30>
1:39<:09>
1:38<:47>
1:37<:24>
1:36<:00>
1:35<:35>
1:34<:09>
1:33<:42>
1:32<:14>
1:31<:45>
1:30<:15>
1:29<:44>
1:28<:12>
1:27<:39>
1:26<:05>
1:25<:30>
1:24<:54>
1:23<:17>
1:22<:38>
1:21<:59>
1:20<:19>
1:19<:38>
1:18<:56>
1:17<:13>
1:16<:29>
1:15<:44>
1:14<:58>
1:13<:11>
1:12<:23>
1:11<:34>
1:10<:44>
1:09<:53>
1:08<:01>
1:07<:08>
1:06<:14>
1:05<:19>
1:04<:23>
1:03<:26>
1:02<:28>
1:01<:29>
1:00<:29>
:59<:30>