Saturday, January 30, 2010

PBs ALL AROUND!!!

We had a great show of improvement in the pool today! 11 people swimming the 400 time trial and 11 new personal bests! Heat #1 had Josh, Riley U, Stevie and Riley. Josh swam extremely well taking down Blair Peters’ three year old team record in a time of 4:22 taking it out in a fast 2:09 through 200. The other three were very close through out the swim in the end Riley U swam 4:48, Stevie 4:50 and Riley M 4:51. Heat #2 had Charles, Roseria, Tyler and Ben. Charles showed some improvement from the last few months with a 4:58. Roseria swam a PB outkicking Tyler who had a breakthrough 20 second PB jumping down from 5:27 to 5:07. Amazing improvements from Tyler who just started swimming in the program 4 months ago and has taken almost a minute and a half of his time! Ben also swam well with a PB! The third and final heat was made up of Ashlyn, Janessa and Darian who all swam new personal bests! Darian dropped another 26 seconds off for a total of 1:42 dropped since he started the program in October. Ashlyn and Janessa dropped 9 and 19 seconds respectively. With improvements like this in January we’re expecting some strong results when it comes time to race in the summer!

Now everyone’s heading into 2 hard build weeks and only 54 days till Tucson!

Monday, January 25, 2010

3000 on the track!

On Saturday, several MNTC athletes took part in the 3000 at the Athletics Manitoba Grand Prix Track Meet. There were 5 MNTC guys in the first section. Charles, Riley and Tyler ran close together throughout the whole race holding a good pace through the first 2km and picking it up towards the finish. All three of them set new personal best times Tyler at 9:19, Riley M. at 9:21 and Charles at 9:24. Also in the first heat were Ben and Riley U. Ben got a personal best finishing in 10:19 and Riley Unger ran 10:17. In the second section 12 year old MNTC youth athlete ran a personal best of 11:02. In the girls section 3 MNTC athletes took part. Janessa led the way for our girls in 12:00 followed by youth athlete Ashlyn at 12:15, and then Roseria who was just returning from injury at 12:45.

Coming up this week is some treadmill testing in the Canadian Sport Centre Manitoba Lab. Just over 2 months from today will mark the start of the MNTC Tucson Spring Break Training Camp.

Here are some picture from just before Saturdays race:




hopefully more pics to follow

Thursday, January 14, 2010