A Day in the Life: Andrea Hupman, Day 6

We had a bit of a scare this morning: it was drizzling as we drove to the pool. Luckily, the sun came out! Then a double rainbow came out! Even the University of Hawaii swimmers doing dryland on deck were saying it was a "solid rainbow." It was definitely a beautiful sight over the pool for our morning workout.

In the time between practices, we went shopping in the stores along the Waikiki Beach. And, we saw Santa! He was wearing his red hat, a light jacket, and shorts. We took a picture, of course. We saw more ABC Stores than Starbucks. There were pearls, shells, all kinds of things shiny, and all kinds of things tropical. We did some Christmas shopping and got gifts for our Secret Snowflake gift exchange.

In other news, the police arrested someone in connection to the break-in from earlier this week. A few of the girls got subpoenas to appear in court tomorrow (luckily their court time is between practices, so they won't have to miss any swimming!). It will be interesting to see what happens.

Practice this afternoon went pretty well. During warm-up, we did some underwater flip turns to help us work on getting over fast, accelerating through the flip. Flip turns (or just turns in general) are something you can always work on in practice, regardless of the set. We had a variety of sets today, and lots of chances to work on turns.

12×75, odds kick @ 1:20, evens fly/back/breast @ 1:10, every 3rd 75 hard
100 easy
24×25 @ :35, 1-hard/easy, 2-easy/hard, 3-easy, 4-hard
100 easy
8×300, odds moderate, evens hard—broken up as 2×150, 3×100, 4×75, 6×50 @ 1:20 pace
6×75 easy, double arm back/kick/choice