Meanwhile, back at a (slightly) lower level, I’m just back from a week in Tenerife – team manager for the club high-performance warm weather training camp at T3 in Adeje. What an intense experience over the seven days with 49 athletes and their coaches. The Olympic squads start arriving next week / the week after so the place was quiet this week. The upside of that is that we had a full 10-lane 50m pool, an 8-lane 25m pool and a flume to ourselves all week.
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Daily Schedule
08:00 Call / breakfast
09:30 Gym
10:30 Activation session / flume
11:00 – 13:00 Swim session 1
13:30 Lunch
14:30 Rest / Siesta
16:30 Activation session / flume
17:00 – 19:00 Swim session 2
19:30 Dinner
21:00 Daily team meeting
22:30 Curfew
23:00 Lights out
The senior squad covered 73km in the week – which is a very high total for this type of craic. Some experience for youngsters to carry out such a focused run of training – it’s simply not delivered at this level in other sports.
The season winds up with a bit of diversion at the Lee Swim on July 6th, then the junior and the senior nationals later in the month.