Happy Holidays

The Stowe Swimmers are enjoying a well deserved mid-season break and will be back in the water on Tuesday, 1/3/2012.

This week in practice we celebrated the holidays with our Water Games practice on 12/21 & 12 Days of Christmas workout on 12/22. Our week goal was finishing with 110% not just 100%! The swimmers did this in every workout all week long! The Juniors started the week working on their Individual Medley order, practicing all the strokes, and the Seniors continued to work on their interval training on Tuesday.

On Water Games day we took the lane lines out and swam in a circle, creating a giant whirlpool, then practiced some water ballet with sculling and more circle jogging! The juniors were able to play their own game of Sharks & Minnows, very fun! Than the Seniors played Water Basketball, a variation of water polo for 30 minutes, followed by a few very intense rounds of Sharks & Minnows in which Seychelle, Emily, & Megan G. swam 25 meters underwater more times than I can count! The kids eventually got frustrated and pulled them up to the top! That's some serious oxygen deprivation training, way to strengthen those lungs.

Thursday's workout was great fun! In the water was a small group who accomplished the 12 days of Christmas:
Yvain Hoekstra, Taylor Marshal-Carney, Megan Thomas, Gunner Simons, Megan Gresham, Seychelle Duckworth and guest appearance alumni Clare Miller, along with guest coach 10 year old Tanis Hoekstra, so coach Cara could join in and swim along side!

The workout went like this (or sing it!)
On the 12th day of Christams my swim coach gave to me.....
12 x 50 or 12 x 75 drill/swim warm up
11 bubble bobs
10 x 25 IM order or 10 x 50 choice on :60
9 x vertical leap, try and touch the flags
8 x push ups
7 x 50 or 100 hold 80% effort interval Free
6 x 25 with flippers, underwater streamline as far as you can!
5 x 50 kick w/ flippers & board
4 x 24 dolphin dives
3 x 100 all out fast for time, :60 rest
2 x 50 or 100 coo down swim
1 x Christmas Carol
We chose Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and sang it in the middle of the pool!