11.10.16 Thursday Training!

Good morning! 3050 yard pool workout

300 warm up
8 x 50 on 20" rest.
Main set is: 100/200/300/400/500/500 all with 10-20” rest
300 cool down

Even my kids were pretty worked up over the election, and I have only 0.5 US citizens out of 19 (one dual citizen)! One of my former students apparently posted something very angry on social media that had them talking. I think some of their concerns are legit--we have some kids from Muslim-majority countries (not all Muslim themselves; and if they are, certainly the parents are no extremists if they send their kids to an American school!) but now they're afraid that summer plans for camp, family trips, etc. will be derailed, or if they can go, they'll be bullied. I'm even hearing these comments from Chinese and Vietnamese kids. Some have relatives in the States and are worried for their safety. We don't have big racial issues here at school, but the message it sends that some of the behavior and words they have seen during the campaign have apparently been given the stamp of approval does concern me. Like it or not, the US president is a kind of role model, and not just to Americans.

As for training, 2000m of very sluggish swimming. Just haven't been my usual energetic self this week. Not sure if it's election stress or whatever has had my two colleagues out for much of the week.

Edited by Hot Runner 2016-11-10 4:24 PM