Day 3: Barcelona Training Trip!
Welcome to Day 3 of our 2017 HAC / GCAC Barcelona Training Trip!
Today was special! Some of us completed our first (and second) double+dryland; the rest had a tough kick practice plus a two hour hike in Calella :)
The group is divided into three teams: The Superior Sunshine Sharks!, The Banana Negative Splits, and the Water Cheetahs. We do team challenges and the groups earn points! The first team challenge was creating a fun and motivational team name; the second was each group was assigned a coach and they had to come up with a story about their childhood... it's been VERY fun for them + us coaches :)
Oh, and Happy St. Patrick's Day (
they don't celebrate it here!)
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9:00-11:00am practices are THE BEST! Today our legs were SPENT! We had two groups in the pool, and the third went on a hiking adventure with Doris! |
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We had the pool mostly to ourselves.... |
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... but lo and behold it turns out we followed YORK Swim Club here from TO! What a small world :) |
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Mckenner, Fly Girl and Anna doing some dryland on deck! |
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The morning hiking crew was headed to the pool, so after some downtime after lunch the morning swim group was going out for a lovely jaunt. I took my time after lunch getting ready, but I tried to catch up with the second group's hike in Calella, but they were hard to find! I looked on the rocks... not there... |
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... looked at the lighthouse, they weren't there either... |
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... they were not hiding in the bamboo shoots... |
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... during my journey I came across some ferocious wildlife. This pigeon was VERY intimidating; gave me the evil eye... |
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... this creature was SUPER scary, look how he's showing that tree who's boss! Smallest mountain lion I've ever seen but he sure seemed scrappy... |
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... they're not swimming in there, that's for sure... |
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... look portside! Aye what a discovery! I feel like Christopher Columbus! |
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Hi Daniel!!!! |
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Bountiful, Ogradyclimbingtime and Michael had a great view! They were very adventurous! |
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Fly Girl, Mckenner and Doris our Chaperone having a little break! |
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Hi Emmett! You 'rock' :) Drew's in the background taking some nice photos. |
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Caitniss and Avacado stretching after their second swim, recovery :) |
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The whole crew stretching it out :) Get ready, tomorrow morning will be TOUGH!!! |
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We LOVE to stretch :) The heat lamps are the best, it was a breezy afternoon! |
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Group meeting after dinner: Superior Sunshine Sharks is leading the pack with 10pts; the Banana Negative Splits are in second with 5pts and the Water Cheetahs are the anchor with 3pts. Don't worry folks, the games have just begun :) |
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Team meeting as we review the day! The kids are SO wiped; tomorrow we have a field trip! And the missing luggage is FINALLY arriving, woo hoo :) :) |