NO PRACTICE

Practice has been canceled for this evening due to the weather. There will be practice tomorrow for Gold, Senior 1, Senior 2, and National. Practice will be from 5:15 am to 7:15 am.

Snow!

Tjitske has a huge project due on Tuesday, her last major hurdle before receiving her doctorate. She also has an internship this year at a school in Morrisville, PA but really needed some more time to finish this project. She got her wish today thanks to, as she says, "Father Winter". I told her this is probably the last time she will ever welcome snow during the week. Its amazing how quickly your mood about snow changes when you move from the world of being a full-time student to the world of working full-time. Those of us in the latter group pretty much fall into two categories: the group that has to trudge to work in these conditions and the group that really needs to get work done but can't get to the office today. Neither group is very fun to be in on a day like today!

GCIT is closed today. I along with the three swimmers who showed up for morning practice didn't find this out until we arrived at the school at 5 am. Kind of unlucky for us that the snow only started to get bad by that point. A decision has not been made on practices for afternoon. You can expect a decision on that by 2:30 pm.

Regaining Our Home

Today at practice I realized something very important: we were the only ones there! It is really tough working and training there between November 15th and the middle of February with the number of high school swimming and diving teams there every day. But from the middle of February through next November 15th the high school teams are not there and there is more space (and less noise) for us to deal with.

It is important to remember that the GCIT Aquatics Center is was built so the area high school teams would have a place to train. Without them and their needs we wouldn't have this great facility. Yeah, it gets loud and crowded and we have to have practices canceled or really tough times (see you at 5:15 Saturday morning) because of swim meets. Yet it is completely worth it for the lane space we have outside of these times.

So take the time enjoy the space, the lower noise levels, the longer daylight hours (10 hours and 59 minutes of sunlight tomorrow, increasing by two and a half minutes each day)...I believe we have earned it.