Hi All,

I have been rather quiet lately, this is due to some personal circumstances...
My misses just flew away to do a 12 weeks internship abroad and I have been busy with training, preparations for the ILSe Board meeting in Dublin and in the meanwhile I had the plan to graduate. But that isn't going to happen anymore, for about a week now it is certain that I will have to postpone that, currently I am talking to professors at my University to see how I could managed it for next year.

This cancelling of my graduation made sure that I have some extra time to spend on training, therefore I will be heading to France after this weekend. There I will attend the Wetiz trainingcamp in Lacanua! Straight after that I will fly to Dublin where I hope to be heard by the ILSe Board to talk about the changes the ILSe sport commission wants to make to the LifeSaving sport. Then the main part of the pre-season will kick off, since I will be racing in Belgium at the Oxbow and FILCOW, shortly after that I will head to the DLRG Cup in Warnemunde, Germany and a couple days later I will head back to France to race the OceanPerf Challenge in Capbreton.

But before all this, I have committed myself to my fellow swimming mates to race at the Dutch Swimming Champs in Eindhoven, I am only attending the relay teams and this friday I have to swim in the 4x 200. Saturday they swim the 4x 100 medley, I am not doing this event and for the 4x 100 on Sunday there are some minor issues to be solved.... But who knows!

And then it is full steam ahead to Alicante, where the European LifeSaving Championships will be conducted.

Today tip on training is:
No pain is no gain, but the real elite athlete's know when to hold back and take rest! So instead of a session I will provide you with advice....
If you are fatiguing, and you can't recover anymore and this isn't the intention of the session. Hold back, step out or whatever but do not keep pushing through! Because sometimes it is better to take a session of, so that you are fit and ready to go for the next then to push through and reduce the quality of the current and following sessions!