Indiana University of Pennsylvania: 2012 Training Trip Blog - Day Six

by Josh Huger (MrUtopia)

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: 2012 Training Trip Blog - Day Six

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Day 6:

Today was not really spent in Delray, but Davie, Florida at Nova Southeastern's campus. We had a quad meet with Nova Southeastern, Western Kentucky, and Florida Atlantic. We spent the morning to ourselves sleeping in, laying by the pool and having some quiet time before piling into our vans at noon and heading to our meet.
      

Although we are all worn down and sore from the practices so far this week, we were expected to push through the pain in every race we had and try to pull out the best times we could. This was a difficult task, and we swam against three very tough teams. Still, we took on the task at hand and at least tried to do our best! I thought that all three teams were tough competition and fun to swim against. Nova Southeastern was a great host team also, and showed great sportsmanship throughout the whole meet. I think that even though we were sore and tired and kind of cold by the end, this meet was a very good experience for us. Shout out to Vinny Hall, because at the meet he asked me to give him a shout out in this blog!
       

The ride home was a good time in Coach Josh's van tonight! We all had our pizza to eat for dinner and had some good karaoke going on. We also played the 6 degrees of separation game, where you try and connect 2 famous people through a path of 6 people total. This could be through movies, music, famous relationships, or anything else that might connect these people together. We had some tough riddles to figure out, but it was a good way to pass the time!
       

We got back to the hotel and it was Italian dinner night in the lobby! We all loaded up on our pasta, bread sticks, and of course cookies before heading up to our rooms, going out to sit in the hot tub, or do anything else we were free to do after a long day.
       

Tomorrow we get back into the grind of our normal training schedule. It was nice to have a meet day, but it will also be good to get back to training. We don't have much time before the PSAC conference meet so we all need to be working hard in our training sessions! Can't wait for what tomorrow brings in Delray! GO HAWKS KA!

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