I. Swordfish Swimming Workshop, 2008, Austria
I just arrived home from Austria, where I held (with the help and invitation of Andreas Fuchs, Fürstenfeld Triathlon Team) my 1st swimming workshop. I know Andi from 2006, when I raced the Thermen Triathlon in Fürstenfeld, and he was organizing it. Well... 3 years later he sent me an e-mail, that there is a need of a swimming workshop.
I am a very old school coach. So I don't really have a slide and a full website about it. We can say, I am not a good marketing manager type person :) . All my plans, including the schedules are in a normal notebook (paper). Although we took video recordings - both normal/ underwater, which I analyzed for each of everyone. We had swimming sessions, dryland sessions and several teaching and other activities. And we had very good time as well: cup of coffie, dinner and we had a good laugh.
The participants were all ironmen and wannabe ironman, most fo them having a family and above age 30. Names: Andi, Jozef, Gerald, Cristoph, C-D, Manu, Christian, Martin, Klaus (Mr. Mark Spitz), Marko. All of them has a very good spirit, and strong willing to improve-which is very nice to know. They were able to improve by day. Some of them even surprised me (which is not easy to do). I just can't wait to see them race better and better :) (if you read it guys: Dont forget to remeber everything, mainly your notes and my instructions and do efforts every day, 100% correctly- other way you won't meet your aims).
A few words about my accomodation, which I fell in love with :) . It is in Weinberg, and called: "Kürbishof" - go there and find out what it means. Here you are the website : http://www.kuerbishof.at/ .The best breakfast I had there, and my favorite dinning room is there (where you can't use your cell-phone, by some kind of magic. You can use it outside, but not in the dining room, the cellphone just goes off.) A special thanks to the owner, Christian Gartner (who is an ironman), to let me stay ther for 2 nights and have those lovely breakfasts.
Maybe in the future he will be our partner and we will make Kübrishof for the official accomodation for the Swordfish Swimming Workshops and training camps.
That is all for now, see you later with more news.
Adam
