What a great day of swimming yesterday from all of the LESC crowd that were there. With 60 swimmers competing across the day we had a great team spirit and one I would like to continue through County Championships so please get your forms in as a matter of urgency.
The day saw a lot of different objectives across the club being met. From Juniors competing in their first gala to age groupers smashing their PB's out of the part, and the youth and seniors learning to race tough when tired. As a club we got everything we needed from this well run event.
A big congratulations to both Mimi Robersts and Maddie Walker who join, Adam Freundlich, Ben Saunders, Ryan Cendrowski, Callum Henley, Helen Gorman, Gregory Cox, Alex King, Hannah Cox, Eden Michell, Jo Parker, Erin Dilks, Sian James, Esther Halford, Hannah Dowell and Katie Sloan as Regional championship qualifiers just from the home programme.
As a coach I am always looking for improvements made and areas we need to improve on. Yesterday saw a big step forward in how swimmers at this club "self manage". The pre pool warm ups were better but still need more focus in certain areas and that will come from arriving on time for your sessions, that is 20 minutes prior to you getting in the pool so you can do your pre pool programme. After the races some swimmers were foam rolling and stretching to enable them to continue to compete at a high level throughout the day, this was need especially in the absence of a warm down pool. Nutritionally I saw a vast improvement in the intake of fluids again whilst our performance levels were maintain, other clubs who are not so keen on nutrition performances dipped later in the day and our swimmers food choices were far superior with swimmers realising that the cakes etc were for after the competition had finished and choosing to eat wisely during the day with very few crisps or chocolates being consumed. As for an area we can improve on the main one was Back to Breast turns. I have posted videos of the turns we started to practice this morning on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/127321507349377/ .
All in all it was a very successful day and a big thank you goes out to all the volunteers that helped out, and nice to hear some decent music during warm ups for a change.
