Christmas Holidays

My Christmas holidays are just around the corner. Our last training session of 2007 at Elk Lake, Victoria BC will take place at 11:00am on Saturday December 22. We will be on break from the training centre until we return on January 2.
The coach has indicated to the guys that even though this is a "break", not doing anything over the holidays would not be smart. They have been given a training schedule that consists of 1 session a day lasting just over an hour. This will be enough to keep them "ticking over".
For many of the guys, this is an extremely important break as once they get back, we only have 3 weeks till we head down to San Francisco for a training camp and you don't want to spend half of January trying to get the fitness back that you lost over the holidays. As much sense as this makes to me....there will be guys who don't do it and suffer for it. Those are the types that I don't really want in my boat.
Lets all remember that Christmas will come next year....but once Beijing is done next August....some may never get another shot at the Olympics. Focus, focus, focus.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all....enjoy your holidays!!!

(pictured is my daughter for her Christmas photo....she liked Santa at the mall too!!)