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Many great swims from the boys/men and girls/women and SSTY finds itself in 2nd place at the 2013 WI Swimming 13 & Over State Swimming Championships. SSTY's 713 points are not evenly divided however: The males have accumulated 316 points and are in 2nd place, the females are in third but have more points at 397. Regardless, lots of good work - on to day 3!
Schroeder swimmers shined brightly in the opening session of the 2013 WI Swimming 13 & O State meet. We enjoyed many podium finishes in the 1650 with the highlight being Cassandra's towering achievement winning the event in record time of 16:13 (9:48 at the 1000 also a record) She swam so crazy fast that she also ecliped the boys 13/14 record making her the fastest boy or girl ever in the State. In the 800 Free relays, SSTY won the 13/14 girls and senior men's relays! Live Results
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...
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...
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...
