Blog 1049: Belper Marlins

Belper Marlins open meet saw 34 swimmers from Long Eaton compete in a fun relaxed meet. Lots of personnel best times were broken over the course of the meet with Chloe Blaydon wining Top Girl and Katie Sloan coming 3rd. Whilst we are achieving personnel best times it is important that we realize what we do in training effects the outcome of every race and the little details will make the biggest improvements, things like knowing your stroke count on backstroke so you don't have to slow down into the walls or even turn to early, every time you get to dive do it properly instead of flopping into the pool. One more area the club can improve on is nutrition in particular the intake of fluids during the day, I was asking swimmers how much they had drank coming into the afternoon and most said a bottle (500ml) on a normal day you need 2 liters of water (water not pop or energy drinks) and when you are sitting around for hours on a hot oppressive pool side you will dehydrate alot quicker than a normal day so the need to get water into the system is more, this is one of the biggest factors in afternoon session swims not matching morning sessions swims.