Wednes Practice (May 31, 2011)

Yesterday's practice was pretty easy. We did warm up then we did 400 meter freesyle kick AGAIN but most of us didn't try so our coach made us do 100 meter freestyle kick then we had to multiply the times we got for those by four then we had to see if it matched up to our 400 time. For most of us it didn't which means that we weren't trying hard enough so we had to do the 400 again and actuaclly sprint but I didn't really sprint. I sort of did but not really. The practice was actually really easy and I think the practices are easy now because we are done all of our swim meets for the year. I hope today's practice is easy too!!

~Lola

Tuesday Practice (May 31, 2011)

Today's practice was very easy. All we worked on was freestyle and butterfly. We just did 25 meters of those for about forty five minutes. It was super easy and fun!!!! I got there a little late so I only did the last bit of the warm up. After warm up we worked on breaststroke sprints for about half an hour then, as I said before, we worked on the freestyle and butterfly 25s. after each 25 my friends and I just talked and waited for our coach to tell us when to go again so it was a very easy practice. Hopefully tomorrow's is too!!!

~Lola

Silver Cup Swim Meet

This weekend was great!! I had our last swim meet of the season and I did pretty well. I didn't qualify from provincials (sadly) but I am only a 60th of a second off of the provincial qualifying time. I didn't really add any time from my old time because my old time was a few milliseconds off. I did get three ribbons. I got a 4th place ribbon in 50 meter freestyle, a 5th place ribbon in 50 meter breaststroke, and a 10th place ribbon in 50 meter butterfly. The meet was really good alltogether but right now I am super tired. At least I don't have another practice until Tuesday!!

Gabby G.P., Jenae, and Jesseca W.

 My Friends Gabby G.P. and Jenae

Me and My friend Jenae

 Gabby R.

~Lola

Thursday Practice (May 26, 2011)

Today's practice was really fun. it was super easy. All we did was relays for the majority of the practice. Relays aren't that hard. All we had to was swim 25 meters to the other end then once you touch the wall the next person would go. There was alot of people so you didn't have to swim that often. we also did 400 meters freestyle kick for time AGAIN!!! We pretty much do that every day which is very irritating and not fun. My friends and I were really hyper too which made it much more fun. This was my last practice before my swim meet so wish me luck!!
~Lola

Video

Here is a video of Michael Phelps swimming 400 meter Indiviual Medley at the 2004 Athens olympics. Individual Medley is where you swim each of the 4 strokes in the race. Depending on how long the race is determines how much of each of the 4 strokes you will swim. for example, if you are swimming 400 IM then you would swim 100 meters of each stroke. 100 IM would be 25 meters of each stroke and so on.

Friday Practice (May 20, 2011)

I am super sore from yesterday's practice. Friday practices are always the worst because everyone is tired and sore from the week. Jenae and I were so slow when we were getting changed and we were so lazy when we were walking onto the deck. Friday's practices are usually endurance training which means we do alot of long sets like 2 times 400 meters or something like that. yesterday we did an 800 meter freestyle for time which means that they time us but usually they just say that to make us swim faster. I didn't swim it fast at all because I was too sore. We weren't swimming it well enough at first so we had to restart but I still swam it slow. Gabby and I were very annoyed by our coaches yesterday but we got through it. Did I mention that 800 meters is 32 lenghts of the pool?? I lost track of course. It was a very terrible practice but now there is only a week until the Silver Cup swim meet!! wish me luck!!
~Lola

Thursday Practice (May 19, 2011)

Yesterday's practice was super easy. We worked on butterfly alot and I think that butterfly is an easy stroke once you get the hang of it. Gabby and I were super hyper since we were eating candy before practice and we couldn't stop laughing. Our coaches weren't really paying attention to us very often so whenever we'd finish a set Jenae, Gabby, and I would start playing football with Gabby's waterbottle which was funny. Our coaches kept getting mad at us though because we didn't really listen to them or we would start complaining about something. It was a really fun and easy practice and hopefully today's will be too!!!

~Lola