Tuesday 1 April 2014

Blog 1926: Nuneaton Open Meet

The previous weekend saw a team of Long Eaton Swimmers travel down to Nuneaton for a two day open Meet. Long Eaton started impressively with PBs being produced by all swimmers. Madi Walker added to her freestyle midland times with a 100 Backstroke regional time. Joe Parker, Sian James, Hannah Dowell all making individual freestyle finals. Some existing midland qualifiers lowered their previous standards which will project them up their local/regional rankings and stand them in good steads for the up and coming major competitions. Other swimmers competed exceptionally well in their first experience of a Level Two Open Meet against some tough competition. To progress yourselves you need to be constantly challenged, and entering open meets like Nuneaton against some good Warwickshire clubs will aid your development onto the next stage.

Several swimmers over the weekend are now within a second of a number or regional standards. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! There is still a month remaining and plenty of open meets where you have to find that extra 1% to get you that time. So think where you can achieve this? Starts, turns, Sleep, Nutrition.....

Your attitude to nutrition, skills and the way you conduct yourselves on poolside was far superior to other clubs. You always had your bottles on you, and its nice to turn up after a BIG carvery to see your 11 and unders already lined up to warm up without being told. Both myself and spen acknowledge that we do give you guys some absolute grief when it comes to this stuff, but its because we know how important it is to your development. Remember its about your LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT as an athlete that we are trying to mould and the importance of getting that message across early.