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| Majorca warm weather training 2008 - A Coaches tale | |
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Day Two: Today started at about 7am for most as we wanted to start breakfast at 7:30am. This was more of a shock to the hotel, as the breakfast doesn’t normally start until 8am, but with Mark Walsh’s powers of persuasion everything was sorted out. After breakfast it was a quick gathering of fins and other equipment, and then off to the pool. The coach journey took about 10min and we arrived at the Son Hugo pool at 8:40am. The weather is still a little overcast, but by 10:30am the cloud cover had cleared to leave blue sky. An advanced scouting and foraging party lead by Uber Tracker: Mark Walsh, The Sensible One: Sanchia Seagrove-Castle, and The Bloke with the Money: Roland, made their way slowly under the blistering heat of the Majorcan sun to the nearest civilisation. This was probably the best part of half a mile away. Once this dangerous and sometimes difficult walk was completed, the job of finding food and water started. Back at the pool the swimmers were in the middle of a 2hr training session or something. Anyway back to the important business, food and water hunting. Roland purchased a phone charger and some medical tape for Emma ‘H’ broken fingers. We eventually found a supermarket and purchased the supplies, but then came the torturous and some might say, excessively dangerous journey back to the pool. |
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| We started off in good spirits but soon this uneasy alliance started to show signs of cracking. First was the questioning of the correct way to carry the water bottles, Uber Tracker believed the ‘on your hip’ technique was best, where as the ‘Tour Piggy Bank’ worked with the under arm technique. After 10min maybe 15min hard walking we made it back to the relative safety of the pool. |  |
Land training started at about 11:50am, at the same time the lunch preparation started, with winds gusting sometimes up to 100mph, the piggy bank and Uber Trackers wife fought a battle to cut and prepare a feast fit for a king! This feast lasted approximately 5min once the swimmers had finished the land training. The consumption of this food had all the hallmarks of sharks circling their prey when they smell blood in the water. One at a time the swimmers would dart in grab some food and then off again to eat their food. Once the food had been consumed the swimmers took up position where sun absorption would be maximised. The swimmers then took on the look of a pride of lions after they have devoured a wildebeest, lying about growling at any adult who even mentioned putting a tee-shirt on or heaven forbid a HAT! |
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