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Taper Time For The Next Two Weeks

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The 2010 Long Course season for the Hamden/North Haven YMCA Swim Team is (almost too) rapidly coming to an end. With tonight marking the last dual meet of the season (swimming against the Wallingford YMCA Dolphins), taper will start this upcoming Monday for the Juniors and Seniors.  Here is a quick look at where we have been, overall, for the season as well as where taper will take us over the course of two weeks.

Throughout the summer season, we have peaked at 3350 yards per hour for the Senior group and around 3000 yards per hour for the Junior group.  With the coming taper period, we will drop to 2150 per hour for both groups for the first week while we maintain work on anaerobic phases and race paces with increased rest and concentration on technique.

For the final week, we will drop the hammer to 1525 yards per hour and fine tune all of our race technique and strategies as the Yankee Cluster Championship hits that Friday (July 23rd) and Saturday (July 24th).

Overall, it has been a phenominal seasaon, and I cannot wait to see how these upcoming two weeks turn out for the Juniors and Seniors.

P.S.  The Silver and Gold groups will be going through a “mini-taper”.  Since they are full of energy anyway, they will be truly focusing on race technique and resting just that last week before Championships.

Go Typhoons!

Waterbury YMCA Swim Meet

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I have to say that our swim meet today against the Waterbury YMCA Swim Team (the Barracudas) was a great first meet to have at home.  From Waterbury YMCA’s sportmanship and coaching to all of the parents helping out, and the great swims that all of the Hamden North Haven YMCA Swim Team (the Typhoons) had!  It was, honestly, a pleasure hosting this meet so a huge congratulations and “Thank You” has to go out to all that helped make this a more efficient meet for the two YMCA Swim Teams involved!

So, as the head coach of this Hamden North Haven Swim Team I have to say that Coach Elaina and I are so extremely proud of everyone of our swimmers today!  As I was going over the results (which will be posted on our Short Course page tomorrow afternoon), I noticed that almost all – if not all – of our swimmers had personal best times in at least one event!  As I had previously mentioned in other posts (and what I have mentioned to some of the swim groups and parents), we increased yardage again this past week so the drops in times for a second consecutive week was completely unexpected.  I know I said the same thing last week after our Mystic Swim Meet, but I truly am impressed with the effort our swimmers give in practice and the meets!  It shows us (as coaches) that they truly love swimming for the Typhoons and love the sport of swimming!  With that in mind, we had two more qualifying times for the YMCA Regional New England Championship swim meet!  So, congratulations to everyone, again, and definitely check out the results tomorrow!

Well, on to the next topic which is a big tri-meet with the Wallingford YMCA Swim Team (the Dolphins) and the Valley YMCA Swim Team (the Sprinters)!  We have a couple weeks of rest between today’s meet and this event, but it is well deserved!  So, swimmers, enjoy the rest between meets and let’s have some fun in practice over the next two weeks or so!