Oannes Swims Diary

Diary:	Session 1 of 1
Date:	June 11, 2008
Location:	Musselmans Lake Stouffville, Ontario
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21 C
Weather Conditions	Bright sunny evening, warm air
Water Conditions:	Clear, smooth at the surface
Notes:	6 swimmers met at the 9th Line & Churchill Drive Public beach and ventured into the lake for the first time this season. We split into 2 groups. Group 1 swimming well over 2000 m and Group 2 doing well over 1200 m.
Focus:	Sighting, breathing pattern, shallow wate dolphin for quick exits and entrance.
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Diary:	Session 1 of 1
Date:	June 14, 2008
Location:	Musselmans Lake Stouffville, Ontario
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21 C
Weather Conditions	Bright sunny morning, warm air
Water Conditions:	Clear, smooth at the surface
Notes:	Just the 1 swimmer and it was her first time in a wet suit and in open water. We had a nice easy swim that seemed, from the coaches point of view, to be quite relaxed.
Focus:	Comfort in the wet suit, comfort in open water, breathing pattern, keeping the eyes low in the water, sighting.
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Mona Question/Comment: I took my new wetsuit to Musselman’s Lake for a lesson in open-water swimming with Coach Kelvin. We covered how to put it on, how buoyant we are in.... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 1 of 1
Date:	June 18, 2008
Location:	Musselmans Lake Stouffville, Ontario
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21 C
Weather Conditions	Bright sunny evening, cool air
Water Conditions:	Bit of a wind whipped up and made for a challenging swim.
Notes:	2 swimmers and I met for an evening swim. The air was cool, but water was perfect. We did about 1400 m fairly continuous.
Focus:	Swimming in wavy conditions, sighting, breathing pattern.
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Diary:	1 of 10
Date:	Friday June 27, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21 C
Weather Conditions	Sun with few clouds
Water Conditions:	Extremely calm, water cloudy with spring green matter.
Notes:	Great first time group for 2008 at Cherry Beach.
Focus:	Sighting, drafting.
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Mona Question/Comment: For the first time this year, the water was clean enough and warm enough yesterday for a lesson in open-water swimming (at Cherry Beach).... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 2 of 10
Date:	Friday July 4, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	65 F or 19 C
Weather Conditions	Totally beautiful day, warm air, sunny... the best!
Water Conditions:	Cool, getting clearer (still a lot of green stuff floating in the water).
Notes:	Great to have a larger group of 7 swimmers of varying experiences.
Focus:	Because of the cold water, we stayed mostly close to the shore and between two buoys set about 200m apart. Cross Over Drill, sighting, Intensity focus.
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Mona Question/Comment: I tried going into the water without a wetsuit but it was colder than last week--cold enough to hurt.... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 3 of 10
Date:	Monday July 7, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	72 F or 22 C
Weather Conditions	Perfectly wonderful sunny afternoon, warm with little wind.
Water Conditions:	Floating clumps of organic material, floating up from the bottom (it's like the bottom is releasing all this stuff that has been there all winter as the new growth starts). Water is getting c learer. There was an interesting wave mtion in the lake; when heading east you rode it, when heading west, it created a challenging swim.
Notes:	Group of 8 swimmers and a 9th showed by the end of the session. Jock stood by guarding for the session again.
Focus:	Long 300-400m course, which kept the group fairly shallow. Sighting, breathing pattern focus.
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Arthur Kwok Question/Comment: Great swim, guys. I don't know why I always get so seasick. The rolling waves weren't that bad, but the seasickness just crept up on me! Great day for a swim though. It was a beautiful evening and including my warmup, it must have been around 3.5-4k for me! First Name: Mona Question/Comment: There were eight of us swimmers at Cherry Beach. And eventually LotStreetWiz joined us to make it nine..... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 4 of 10
Date:	Monday July 14, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	70 F or 21 C
Weather Conditions	Bright sunny, little wind.
Water Conditions:	Smooth with slight rise and fall; very calm. Water is getting clear but visibility is still quite low.
Notes:	We swam a long course 500m. 2 times around with a small break between - 2000m in total (some swimmer swam more or less). We practiced my water start technique and the group did a water race start on the last round.
Focus:	1000m distance and water starts
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Mona Question/Comment: We had a bit of rain on Friday but the water quality was good again by Sunday so swimming was on for tonight. The water was..... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 5 of 10
Date:	Friday July 18, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	74 F or 23 C
Weather Conditions	Cloudy, humid and warm. Started with no wind but was windy at the end of the session.
Water Conditions:	Water was warmer and clearer. Started flat and calm, but finished with a mildly agressive chop with a good swell.
Notes:	With the chop and swells, it was a great opportunity to try swimming into and with the waves.
Focus:	Swimming into and with the waves, tacking the waves, dryland starts & dolphin diving
Athletes Notes:	Mona Albona - I thought the swell arose, died off, and arose again as the hour went on. First Name: Mona Question/Comment: It was another day of heat & smog alerts. We wanted to get to swimming early. The water was warmer than ever..... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 6 of 10
Date:	Monday July 21, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	75 F or 24 C
Weather Conditions	Warm, sunny, light breeze.
Water Conditions:	Warm, calm, clear.
Notes:	Practiced drafting as part of the warmup. Swam a course (2x600m to 1000m), exited the water and ran on shore to a designated point, then reentered the water to swim back on the course.
Focus:	Drafting, distance swimming combined with running exit, beach running, running entrance.
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Mona Question/Comment: In spite of the rain on Sunday, the lake was clean and the water was the warmest yet: about 25 C. The water..... More	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 7 of 10
Date:	Friday Aug 1, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	77 F or 25 C
Weather Conditions	Perfectly beautiful, sunny, with a very light wind.
Water Conditions:	The water is finally getting warmer and clearer too. There was a slight swell.
Notes:	We had five swimmers who swam a square course and a triangle.
Focus:	Blind swimming to support your efforts to swim straight.
Athletes Notes:	First Name: Mona Question/Comment: We did some swimming with eyes closed to test our ability to keep going in a straight line. I learned to compensate for a slight tendency to veer. There was something of a swell with waves rolling in.	Submit Notes, Comments, Suggestions

Diary:	Session 8 of 10
Date:	Monday Aug 4, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	77 F or 25 C
Weather Conditions	Perfectly beautiful, sunny, no wind.
Water Conditions:	The water was very calm, not great visability and with lots of floating weeds, but an easy swim.
Notes:	We had just 3 swimmers who swam a long full 2km continuous swim - from point to point and outside the usual boundries of the Cherry Beach swimming area.
Focus:	Continuous swim, sighting.
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Diary:	Session 9 of 10	Sorry, no pic
Date:	Friday Aug 8, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	70 F or 20 C
Weather Conditions
Water Conditions:
Notes:	We had just 3 swimmers for this swim. I had been away in Montreal, so Jock took the sessions.
Focus:
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Diary:	Session 10 of 10
Date:	Monday Aug 11, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	70 F or 20 C
Weather Conditions	Partly cloudy, threatening a thunder storm, but in the end, sunny - completely strange weather.
Water Conditions:	Clear, fairly calm and cool again.
Notes:	We had 7 swimmers - great turn out. I decided with the water cool again that a long swim would be best for the group, so we swam to buoy 1, then down way past buoy 5 and back to buoy 1.
Focus:	Continuous swim, sighting.
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Diary:	Session 11	Sorry, no pics
Date:	Monday Aug 18, 2008
Location:	Cherry Beach, Lake Ontario
Water Temperature:	65 F or 19 C
Weather Conditions	Bright sunny and warm day
Water Conditions:	Cool, quite churned up due to very active long rolling waves
Notes:	We had 7 swimmers who all enjoyed the challenging swim in the high long rollers.
Focus:	Breathing conditions in high rollers and sighting from the crest of each wave.
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