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CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 11 First I want to apologize for missing last night's 5:00 pm zoom meeting. Mid - afternoon to early evening my brain thought it was Sunday as I worked on building cabinets. At about 7:00 pm I realized it was Monday. So tonight we'll review what we were going to do last night. The online petition to the governor is over 8700 people now. If you want the governor to open pools asap, feel free to get in on the...
May 18, 2020 CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 10 Hopefully we're closing in on an end of swimmer lockdown season. We should know more by Wednesday or Thursday. If you haven't done so already, remember to send me your intentions of returning to swim. Thank you for all of you who have already responded. If you're not sure if you're getting all of the news through your e-mail, I have been posting just about everything on the news tab of our website. _________________________________________________________________________________ Let us...
I wanted to bring you all up to date on they types of things that are going on in the background regarding the path to re-opening. I am now participating in 3 different groups that are making efforts to get us back in the pool. One is the SI swimming task force, another, a California swimming task force, and now Game On San Diego, which is just SD county, but a comprehensive effort for all sports. I'd just like to cover the most recent zoom call I was on. Today...
May 11, 2020 CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 9 This is probably not what we all expected when the first stay-at-home orders were coming out. A couple of weeks of flattening the curve, maybe a couple more, and then we could head back to normal. We are all finding out that normal will be a while. Even when we get to start swimming again, things will be different for quite some time. We are working on getting things pushed forward, but there are still many...
May 4, 2020 CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 8 Things are getting closer to some type of return to the pool. There is a lot going on behind the scenes, meetings, letters to govt. officials, talks with the Kroc center, etc. I will send out a detailed note by Wednesday afternoon of how we might be returning to the water some time in May. (and hopefully no later than early June). 1) am and pm exercises I just leave this on the list as a...
CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 7 Hard to believe that this will be our 7th week out of the water - Yikes. Gettin' excited for some future time in the water. 1) am and pm exercises Do 'em. Self discipline opportunity. Enough said. 2. Nightly video sessions Join us each weeknight for learning at 5:00 pm. The sessions will last between 30 and 45 minutes. To Join The Zoom Meetings https://zoom.us/j/898062451?pwd=KzJBT1hIdS96UUIvMVREditFNUh0UT09 Meeting ID: 898 062 451 Password: 481768 Short Course and long course are different...
CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 6 Some people are probably finding their stay-at-home groove, while others are still trying to find that groove. Me, can't lie, haven't quite found it yet. . . but I'm getting there. I do really enjoy the time I get to work with the kids online. I am confident that the topics we address has helpful tidbits that will stick with them and help them later in the pool and life. Last week we reviewed swims from the 2016 Olympic...
2 videos and a dryland workout: The first one here, we watched last night The second is here, just another inspirational video This one is an upper body workout specific to Fly. as I told the swimmers yesterday, if they do this, to make sure they have an easy bungee with not much tension when their arms are doing anything out wide. upper body fly dryland
CAST - Covid-19 - Out of the water - Week 5 I've been coaching now for almost 2/3 of my life, and have not been away from a pool deck for more than 2.5 weeks at any time. This is as strange for me as it is the swimmers. (and for some of you parents as well). The optimist in me hopes that we'll be able to do some activities together some time in May. In the meantime - stay healthy - stay safe. 1) am and pm exercises Please...
