I changed gears after WAG. I felt like we needed more stroke work. We dropped yardage significantly, and went back to pure basics for a week, then developed stroke technique for another two weeks, and had one week of strength and conditioning going into the meet.
With this format I knew we didn't have enough conditioning for the Rio Mesa Meet and not enough speed work to be at Top Speed. Going into the meet though I had the swimmers who had cuts, and others who would have to drop amazing percentage of time to make their JO cuts. I was very curious to see how the kids would respond to meet where we looked so much better stroke wise, but physically not fully prepared.
Wow, they swam amazing for the most part. Even my few swimmers who had a rough fall season began to start taking time off again at this meet. They're beginning to develop strokes that make swimming easier, and actually swam long hard events like the 1000 Freestyle, 400 IM, 200 Fly, 200 Back, and the 200 Breast really well, despite the lack of conditioning up to this point.
Time to get back to full conditioning mode with some speed work and see how we can take these new developed strokes into JO's and the Coastal Championship Meet. They should be fully prepared for those meets and swim really fast.
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