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Oannes Swims - Open Water Swim Training Diary |
| Diary: | Session 1 of 5 |  |
| Date: | Sunday July 4 , 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
60 F or 15.5 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Beautiful sunny morning - start of a hot day | |
| Water Conditions: |
Calm with soft, long waves and very clear. | |
| Notes: | New Group of just 2 swimmers gathering for Sunday AM swimming. Jock with Donna our new Shore Monitor took the group through this first of swims. | |
| Focus: | Sighting, relaxed high elbows and breathing patterns. | |
| Athletes Notes: |
Susie G - "Great Feedback given and looking forward to Sunday!" | Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions |
| Diary: | Session 2 of 5 |   |
| Date: | Sunday July 11, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
70 F or 21.1 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Bright and sunny. | |
| Water Conditions: |
Warmer, calm but not quite clear | |
| Notes: | Only 2 swimmers showed up to swim as other got caught in road closures due to a run happening out of the Distillery District. | |
| Focus: | Distance swimming - from Guard house west to the channel and back east to the furthest beaches. Then, back to the Guard house - about 2.5 km . | |
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| Diary: | Session 3 of 5 |  |
| Date: | Sunday July 18, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
75 F or 23.9 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Bright, sunny with a strong wind | |
| Water Conditions: |
Warm, clearish with a strong chop - almost white cap | |
| Notes: | Great session with 4 athletes. We swam long point to point swims as can only be done in the AM before the guards arrive | |
| Focus: | Sighting, coughing into water, swimming in choppy conditions. | |
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| Diary: | Session 4 of 5 |  |
| Date: | Sunday July 25, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
70 F or 21.1 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Cloudy | |
| Water Conditions: |
calm with a mild south wind and chop. | |
| Notes: | 4 swimmers swam a rectangle of the entire Cherry Beach - over to Leslie Spit, to the East and back | |
| Focus: | Risky open water swimming, sighting, staying together. | |
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| Diary: | Session 5 of 5 |  |
| Date: | Sunday Aug 1, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
70 F or 21.1 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Bright, sunny morning - enlightening! | |
| Water Conditions: |
East wind (unusual) with an aggressive chop and current - GREAT FUN! Otherwise, clear and crisp. | |
| Notes: | Swam with 2 athletes to the channel, to beach 3 and back into the dock. I swimmer arrived last and did a trial swim from and around the dock. | |
| Focus: | Offer individual feedback to swimmers on their stroke. | |
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| Diary: | Session 6 of 10 | No Pic |
| Date: | Sunday Aug 8, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
72 F or 22.2 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Dark and cloudy | |
| Water Conditions: |
Dark, organic, calm | |
| Notes: | Swam with 2 athletes | |
| Focus: | Distance swimming - 900m repeats | |
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| Diary: | Session 7 of 10 | No
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| Date: | Sunday Aug 15, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
72 F or 22.2 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Warm but cloudy AM | |
| Water Conditions: |
Dark, organic but calm | |
| Notes: | 2 athletes did 4 km each | |
| Focus: | Distance swimming | |
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| Diary: | Session 8 of 10 |  |
| Date: | Sunday Aug 29 , 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
| Water Temperature: |
75 F or 23.88 C | |
| Weather Conditions |
Bright and sunny | |
| Water Conditions: |
Clear, clean... totally lovely. | |
| Notes: | 6 Swimmers met for a 3 hour timed swim. Most had a distance goal in mind. 10k, 8k, 6k and 4k distances had been attained with in the 3 hr time frame. | |
| Focus: | Distance swimming, feeding, remaining focussed after swimming for more than 1.5 hours. | |
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| Diary: | Session 9 of 10 | No
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| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
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| Diary: | Session 10 of 10 | No
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| Date: | _______, 2010 | |
| Location: | Cherry Beach - Toronto | |
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