Day 1 of my busy week is complete. Well I guess really it is day 2 since today is a Tuesday, but really yesterday was sort of a warm up day and so mentally today is feeling like Day 1. Well that is the way I think of it anyway.
It is one of those funny things I guess. I always consider Sunday to be the end of the week and Monday to be the start of the next week. However, my wife (and I suspect many other people) consider Saturday to be the end of the week and Sunday to be the start of the week, which has always seemed kind of strange to me. I think my view comes from the fact that for years my training programs have started on Monday and finished on Sunday...
No matter, I digress, in the bigger picture I suspect it is probably not that important an issue. .
So, moving right along.Where was I?
Oh yeah, that's right, the completion of Day 1 of my busy week, which in this case was a Tuesday.
As I mentioned yesterday, the coaching part of my day today was a session down the pool with my mate. The day was made more complicated though by a message late yesterday from Front Runner head coach Raf asking if I could take a run training session this afternoon for a corporate group. Raf was planning on taking the session but some unforeseen complications had come up making him unavailable.
It made for a busy day of coaching.
The swim session this morning was a fun one. As is the standard practice I wasn't doing the bulk of the swimming, instead swimming a bit and spending the rest of the time watching my mate. For something a bit different the session included a range of efforts, ranging from 25m up to a 100m, so it made for a session with really good solid efforts, which is what the session is focussed on.
As well as some solid efforts the session also included a continued focus on a couple of the technical aspects of swimming, in today's case tumble turns. My mate started learning,to tumble turn properly a couple of weeks ago and I am pleased to say he is progressing really well with it. His turns still need a bit of polish, but the basics are there, all it needs now is some practice. Combining the technique work he is doing with the hard work that he is also doing in the pool means the gains in speed are definitely coming. Slowly but surely.
This afternoon's run session was a simpler, but also interesting session.
The run program was a fairly classic threshold session, 2 minutes on and 2 minutes off x 6. The complication came with the group. There were only three people in the running group but they were all quite new to running and with a range of abilities/confidence levels. Delivering the session in a way that made sense to new runners, but also wasn't too daunting to the people that are still gaining confidence was the challenge.
With a lot of encouraging and a bit of explanation I think we got there in the end. It can sometimes me hard to tell how a session has been received when you are only meeting an athlete for the first time. However, by the end of the session I think the group understood the point of the session and felt like they had achieved its objectives. Pretty sure they all felt like they had done a bit of work too. Which was kind of the point.
So that was that. Busy day for sure, but one that had lots of new coaching experiences in it, so I can't really complain.
Bring on tomorrow.
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