See the conversation below - food for thought!  Dave Adding to the twitter chat going on at the moment re optimal stroke rates/lengths... Rick Demont does a good job of highligting the differences between a traditional 'Thope' length focused stroke and a more tri-typical rate stroke in "The Swim Coaches Bible". I've attached a couple of diagrams to highlight the differences and to indicate why a T.I. stroke doesn't work for a lot of triathletes/long distance swimmers.   In the traditional 'Thorpe' stroke you'll see there is a period where...

  Mason Schoof set four new team marks for 11/12 boys.  He broke his own mark in the 100 free, Mark Gwidt's 1982 mark in the 200 free, Graham Charlton's 2004 mark in the 1000 and established a new team record in the 200 fly.  Congrats!

Sleep Your Way To Better Race Times By Dr. Robert Portman The average triathlete has a time management problem. Twenty-four hours just isn’t enough time to juggle the competing interests of family, job and training. The problem is exacerbated because we live in a 24/7 world. Since our day cannot be extended beyond 24 hours, adjustments have to be made. For most triathletes, the easiest adjustment is to cut down on their sleep time. Sleep time has been steadily decreasing since the 1960’s when the average adult slept 8.5 hours...

  Racine Park's Andrew Suchla diving to be the best Gary Porter Racine Park’s Andrew Suchla, the defending Division 1 state diving champ, hasn’t lost in two years. By Dave Boehler, Special to the Journal Sentinel Feb. 14, 2013   Andrew Suchla is not only in position to break a record at the swimming and diving state meet this weekend, he's trying to erase the oldest one. On Saturday, the Racine Park senior has a chance to eclipse the Division 1 diving record of 549.80 points set by Nicolet's Mark...

  Stanford Professor Talks Sleep Deprivation Among Athletes By Paul Steinbach January 2013   William Dement wakes up students who doze in his class (there's at least one every day) by targeting them with a squirt gun, often after classmates in a lecture hall of 300 have pointed the person out. The individual must then stand and shout, "Drowsiness is red alert." It's a mantra for Dement, a Stanford University professor, author of The Promise of Sleep and founder of the school's Sleep Disorders Clinic & Research Center, the world's...

New Sessions of Schroeder Super Stars is ready for registration.   Read more!  The next session begins on Tuesday, February 26.

Tom Michelson took these photos at the 2013 Regional Championship meet last weekend at Homestead High School

        2013 Winter National Championships                       Women       Men   LCM SCM SCY Event SCY SCM LCM 26.69 26.19 23.29 50 Fr 20.59 22.89 23.59 57.69 56.29 50.89 100 Fr 45.19 49.99 51.79 2:04.59 2:01.49 1:49.69 200 Fr 1:39.09 1:49.89 1:53.29 4:20.79 4:12.29 4:51.99 400/500 Fr 4:28.89 3:52.49 4:01.09 8:54.49 8:42.99 10:01.19 800/1000 Fr 9:20.59 8:10.09 8:21.49 17:06.69 16:34.79 16:45.19 1500/1650 Fr 15:34.89 15:17.79 15:59.99 1:05.49 1:02.59 56.49 100 Bk 50.49 55.89 58.59 2:19.89 2:15.39...

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