Friday, March 17, 2017

Day 3: Barcelona Training Trip!

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!)

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!
We had the pool mostly to ourselves....
... but lo and behold it turns out we followed YORK Swim Club here from TO!  What a small world :)
Mckenner, Fly Girl and Anna doing some dryland on deck!
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...
... looked at the lighthouse, they weren't there either...
... they were not hiding in the bamboo shoots...
... during my journey I came across some ferocious wildlife.  This pigeon was VERY intimidating; gave me the evil eye...
... 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...
... they're not swimming in there, that's for sure...
... look portside!  Aye what a discovery!  I feel like Christopher Columbus!
Hi Daniel!!!!
Bountiful, Ogradyclimbingtime and Michael had a great view!  They were very adventurous!
Fly Girl, Mckenner and Doris our Chaperone having a little break!
Hi Emmett!  You 'rock'  :)   Drew's in the background taking some nice photos.
Caitniss and Avacado stretching after their second swim, recovery :)
The whole crew stretching it out :)  Get ready, tomorrow morning will be TOUGH!!!
We LOVE to stretch :)  The heat lamps are the best, it was a breezy afternoon!
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 :)
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 :)  :)