Jnr training camp

30 swimmers
3 days
4 sessions to go.

Sam Thiele - tuff man award after giving the main set yesterday all he had. Gatorade chuck half way thru and kept going. Followed closely by Max Dalton, he was breathing thru his ears mouth and nose during the main set this morning.
Special mention to Angus Brabner. He gives the a new meaning to Faster, Harder, Longer, Stronger. Can't wait to see this kid swimming in a few yrs.

Great session by all this morning. Enjoy the photos.








Kimi Henricks Practicing race starts















Training hard.


- Nic

Location:Old Mornington Rd,Mt Eliza,Australia

Camp

Lying on a deck chair in sunny QLD on the last morning of a week long camp, it's hard not to realise what a great experience it has been.

The weather has held up beautifully, the training has been intense and well executed, and the squad look fit, tanned and ready to take on allcomers.

A few highlights of the trip include the day at Dreamworld, and the accompanying rides and entertainment, and the 'ink' that the boys of the squad sported for a session in an homage to Dave.

Whilst the overall distance swum may not measure up to previous years, the effort, enthusiasm and application of every athlete served as more than compensation. Pace work sets, drills, starts, turns and finishes have all been sharpened in preparation for a week of spectacular racing at States.

Every member of the trip will take their own memories from the time away, but not one of 13 swimmers and 3 coaches will recall the week with anything less than a Cheshire Cat grin.















- Nic & Ben

Location:Runaway Bay

Training

The team loving some wall-sit during their kick set.




- Ben

Location:Outdoor MG

Aussie swimmers left to right
Koti, leaha, Adelaide, jarrod, vanessa and remy showing there tats.
Final day. Some good swims and final medal tally.
15 gold, 15 silver, 6 bronze next closest team was England
6, 9 and 4

For u kids - there are opportunities for u do get on these teams. So stay focussed and the results will follow.

Nic

Location:Isle of mann

Bugger. The actual photo was taken with the camera not iPhone. This was at the pool earlier



- Nic

CYG 2011

Day 2.
Some very impressive swims. T Maxwell 48.48 with awesome turns, underwater and break outs.
Ami Matsuo 25.19 50 free. I enjoyed Tommy Sucipto 200 brst 2.14.27 great stroke length and very smooth. Silver.
This pic was taken yesterday at lunch. Vic swimmer alex Graham with the Earl of Essex.

- Nic

Day 1
5 gold
4 silver
1 bronze


- Nic

CYG 2011

After the worlds longest longest travel itinerary we finally arrived at the isle of man. 58 hrs with an overnight stop in Liverpool. Then the fun starts. What was Meant to be a 2 hr fast boat ride to the isle of man took 3.5 hrs due to rough sees. Half way across at least half the Aussie team was hanging off the back of the boat chucking there lunch up due to sea sickness. This included me. The toilets were an absolute no go zone. Iv never seen so many pale faces. Anyway we bounced back and very much looking forward to the return trip.

Isle of man is nice. Wouldn't want to live here but it's nice. Very English seaside village (tax haven) with a kick ass motorbike race one a yr.

Day one of racing at Com Youth Games.
Www.cyg2011.com this is the web site if u want. It has live results and streaming.

Nic

Location:Isle of Man

The tropics

Temperatures in at MSAC have reached an all time high, with best estimates putting the mercury at somewhere around the 38 degree mark.

In spite of this, there have been some ice cold performances tonight from Jono Koh, Nick Morris, Arthur Kiselnikov, Sam Hensen-Thompson, Reece Walker and Maxi Williams just to name them all.

Currently looking forward to Joe and Maxi ripping through a 100 fly, and a swift exit into the cool night air.

Congrats to Sam H-T on his silver in the 100 FS earlier.


- Ben

Location:MSAC

Opening night

A ripper first night at State SC 2011, with Bayside thus far netting three medals. Joe picked up a gutsy gold in his 200 fly, swimming through a debilitating illness and showing heart to claim the win.

Maxi Williams picked up two bronze medals in his 50 FS and 200 BK, coming from nowhere in the backstroke to win a dark-horse 3rd.

Congratulations to all swimmers, some great PBs coming out of the night and some huge confidence boosts in off events.

A big thanks goes out to the timekeepers who helped out tonight, thanks for your support.

The swim of the night goes to Pete Koh, racing the boys 13 years 100 IM and picking up a big PB with Jono's help.

Shaping up as a great weekend for Bayside.


- Ben

Location:MSAC

SC

My eyes hurt.

- Nic

Location:MSAC

BSide SC Meet

Hi all

We will be holding our short course meet sun 5th June. This meet also doubles towards club championship points.

To enter the meet plz renew your membership first with swim vic.
Flyers on bside notice board.




- Nic

Location:Mentone

Flight

Missed our flight, now flying out at 9ish thanks to Mrs Morris and some Easter charity. Some fantastic karma coming your way Anna.

Making the best of a bad situation, Ben recorded a new top score on doodle jump to the delight of Nic and Nick.




- Ben

Location:Adelaide airport

The Weet Bix Kid

Last day.

Hey Nic here is some blog martial for ya mitch woke up this morning holding a week bix with box on the floor next to him - he had no idea how or when he got it. Ken

Street art

- Ben

Location:City

Age Nats Last Night

M9 laser skirmish
Cnr cross & goodwood road
Westbourne Pk
SA 5401

$30 - bowling, junk food and laser
9pm-11pm
It's an AMF centre parents can come if the want.

- Nic

Location:Adelaide

Nic Morris

Nic Morris- what were you thinking about in your 50 free?

Nic Cap- I dunno, I was thinking about chicks for the last 25m

Ben- Jesus...

Nic Morris- really? I don't even remember what I thunk about... Wait I mean *thought* about.

Ben- blog time.


- Ben

Location:Pool

Bronze

Congrats to Nic Cap on his second medal of the meet, bronze in his 50 free with a 25.36.

The boys are warming up for the 4x50 free relay- Bayside's last event for nationals 2011.


- Ben

Location:SA Aquatic Centre

First medal

Bronze for Nic Cap in his 100m free with a 55.34. Good job Nico, the 50 is tomorrow.


- Ben

Location:Pool

Hundy Free

Nic Cap is primed and ready to go in his 100 free tonight, swimming for some glory out of lane 5. He swam a comfortable heat this morning and has some improvements to make ahead of tonight's final.

Mitch Foss and Joel Simondson are now finished racing, congrats to both boys on a fantastic meet.

When asked how he felt in his last race, the 100 breaststroke, Mitch replied "I didn't feel too good in the last 25-75 metres."

- Nice specificity there Mitch. It can only be assumed that the first 25 felt pretty awesome.


- Ben

Location:Dinner