There
was little chance of Swindon Dolphin swimmers putting on weight over the holiday period
as the High Performance, Olympic, Junior Olympic and Development squads attended the
annual Christmas training camp at
. Each squad had a minimum of 11 pool
sessions (including two 3 hour sessions for the Olympic and High Performance squads,
on Christmas and New Year’s Eves), with swimmers from the top squads that attended
all 13 sessions completing over 60,000 metres, or approximately 40 miles.
This
year’s “Tough Enough” session* comprised 55 x 200m swims in a single session and was
completed by 13 swimmers. The total of
11,000 metres is the swimming equivalent of the
.
Running
throughout the camp was the Christmas Decathlon, made up of a mixture of swimming
challenges and land based exercises such as press-ups. Miriam
Bermingham and Jon Audis emerged as outright
winners of this competition.
*
= This year’s 55 x 200m set included a large individual medley block, a main set of
20 x 200m freestyle on very short rest intervals (2:30 seconds for some swimmers)
and towards the end, a descending set of very high intensity finishing at maximum
effort.
Source:
Swindon Dolphin Press Team
