Diary - Oannes Swims

Oannes Swims

Diary:	Session 1 of 10
Date:	June 19 , 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21.1 C
Weather Conditions	Bright sunny day, warm.
Water Conditions:	Water is looking clearer all the time.
Notes:	Ecoli was listed high, but water seemed fine. Set up a rectangle course for the 3 swimmers who attended.
Focus:	Sighting, Breathing pattern work and power stroking
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Diary:	Session 2 of 10
Date:	July 26, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21.1 C
Weather Conditions	Sunny and warm
Water Conditions:	Warm, but not clear. Very calm with just a gentle swell
Notes:	Group of 4 swimmers worked all 5 buoys doing 300m distances with minimal rest between
Focus:	Power Stroking, bilateral breathing.
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Diary:	Session 3 of 10
Date:	July 30 , 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21.1 C
Weather Conditions	Sunny, warm.... wonderful summer weather.
Water Conditions:	Calm, warm at the surface but cool below.
Notes:	Great group of 4 keen swimmers.
Focus:	Set up rectangle course about 700m. Most did 3 x 700m.
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Diary:	Session 4 of 10
Date:	Monday Aug 2, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21.1 C
Weather Conditions	Bright and sunny
Water Conditions:	Clear-ish and calm
Notes:	Small group of 5 athletes
Focus:	Works within the 5 buoys outlining the swimming area at Cherry Beach we did a Spindle Course using the dock as the apex and each of the 5 buoys to outline the spindles. Swimmers started at the dock, swam out to buoy 1 and back into the dock. Then off from dock to buoy 2 and back. Off to buoy 3 and back into the dock. Continue to include all 5 buoys.
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Diary:	Session 5 of 10
Date:	Friday Aug 6, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	71 F or 22 C
Weather Conditions	Cloudy but bright and quite warm
Water Conditions:	Slight roll which became more intense and the hour progresses. Clear-ish.
Notes:	Only 2 Athletes arrived to swim today.
Focus:	900m - 3x our 300m course - Individual athletes did a different number of repeats to accomplish there assigned distance - from 1800 to 3400m. Broke 3x3 laps into foci: Power stroking, building and with stroke technique foci.
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Diary:	Session 6 of 10
Date:	Friday Aug 13 , 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21.1 C
Weather Conditions	Bright day, but not sunny
Water Conditions:	Calm again and organic.
Notes:	Group of 4 swimmers met ready for our swim.
Focus:	Distance swimmers swam off focusing on accomplishing individual distances assigned. Others, newer to the group, worked on Sighting, catching and pushing skills.
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Diary:	Session 7 of 10
Date:	Monday Aug 16, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	73 F or 22.77 C
Weather Conditions	Sunny, very warm and humid air.
Water Conditions:	Calm to start but whipped up and clear.
Notes:	Great effort by all 5 athletes.
Focus:	Continuous distance from 1200m to 4500m
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Diary:	Session 8 of 10
Date:	Friday Aug 20, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	74 F or 23.3 C
Weather Conditions	Warm and sunny.
Water Conditions:	Clear, lots of warm and hot spots.
Notes:	8 athletes swam various distances and directions on a triangular course.
Focus:	Sighting, power strokes and breathing patterns
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Diary:	Session 9 of 10
Date:	Wed Aug 25 , 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	74 F or 23.3 C
Weather Conditions	Started out sunny but started raining as we entered the water. It rained hard throughout the swim.
Water Conditions:	The water surface is changed by rain - very calm and flat. The water had lots of colour variation.
Notes:	Did 900m intervals working 300s of easy, med and hard efforts.
Focus:	Varying Effort swimming
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Diary:	Session 10 of 10
Date:	Friday Aug 27, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	74 F or 23.3 C
Weather Conditions	Bright and sunny
Water Conditions:	Clear-ish water, heavy sure West to East.
Notes:	Group of 3 athletes did 600s.
Focus:	Digging for speed into the surf and riding the surf
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Diary:	Session
Date:	Monday Aug 30, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	75 F or 24.6 C
Weather Conditions	Perfect day - sunny, slight wind and warm
Water Conditions:	Clear water with chop that grew toward the end of the session
Notes:	Group of 4 athletes - Various distances for each 1500s, 900s or skill all did 600m to close off the session.
Focus:	Sighting, Triathlon start lecture, water starts.
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Diary:	Session
Date:	Monday Sept 6, 2010
Location:	Cherry Beach - Toronto
Water Temperature:	71 F or 21 C
Weather Conditions	Cool, dark and cloudy
Water Conditions:	Clear - the clear-ish I've seen it all season - aggressive roll with some white caps
Notes:	Group of 2 showed up on Labour Day for one of the few last open water swims of the season
Focus:	Distance swimming, power stroking, Dsc/Asc Power.
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