What a crazy couple of days! This weekend was Walnut Creek's Night of Champions--their annual fund raiser, the Russian Olympic Team's first visit to San Francisco, and our first exhibition of our Olympic free program! The evening went really well. Our tech performance was our best yet (say our coaches!) and although our free program wasn't mistake-free, it was still a pretty good first showing. We are really satisfied with our progress, especially because the Russians were only brave enough to swim their technical program and an exhibition program. I guess their free isn't ready yet! Swimming for such a supportive and excited home crowd is really motivating, and performing with swimmers from all different levels reminds you of the journey you've been on yourself. Plus, your family and friends love you and love what you do no matter how good the routine is technically-speaking! I'm really glad to be able to draw on these feelings at the games when the U.S. and all but my closest family and friends will be an ocean away.
The Russians left this morning and, after a restful day off, it's back to practice as usual tomorrow for me. I'm expecting this week to go particularly fast since it's a short week and because our schedule is pretty packed. I really appreciate all the messages so far and keep them coming! 45 days to go!!
Monday, June 23, 2008
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Two Months to go!
Thanks for visiting my blog and reading this, my first entry! There's still a few things I want to add to the page, and I'm enlisting the help of my technologically-savvy husband to get the countdown working at the bottom of the page. So keep checking back for updates and changes!
I can't believe that there are only 53 days until the Olympics...that's hardly any time at all, especially since these next weeks are going to fly by! We have a show this weekend, another at the end of the month, and still one more the middle of next month. The training is going to be pretty intense this week in preparation for the show, but I'm still feeling really good about our progress so far. We have both programs complete and have swam through with pretty decent results. Now we just have lots and lots of matching and perfecting to do as we "fine tune" our programs and get them exhibition-ready, as well as keeping up with our strength and conditioning training out of the water. I hope that everyone on the team stays healthy as we approach the final 2 months. We have had a couple of injuries and sicknesses this month which have made training more difficult because it's hard to run through an entire program with a person missing! Other than that things are going well and I'm excited for the week to come.
I can't believe that there are only 53 days until the Olympics...that's hardly any time at all, especially since these next weeks are going to fly by! We have a show this weekend, another at the end of the month, and still one more the middle of next month. The training is going to be pretty intense this week in preparation for the show, but I'm still feeling really good about our progress so far. We have both programs complete and have swam through with pretty decent results. Now we just have lots and lots of matching and perfecting to do as we "fine tune" our programs and get them exhibition-ready, as well as keeping up with our strength and conditioning training out of the water. I hope that everyone on the team stays healthy as we approach the final 2 months. We have had a couple of injuries and sicknesses this month which have made training more difficult because it's hard to run through an entire program with a person missing! Other than that things are going well and I'm excited for the week to come.
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