thursday practice, etc.

30 mph winds, transitioning to sleet and snow at the end. 50 kids.
the plan involved 'looper' drills, short drills, dutch, and scrimmage in 'stations' with kids cycling through.

the winds made me shift to short pass drills and dutch, with some mini thrown in. i want the kids to feel success right now, and the high winds force me to revise things. it's actually going well. the large numbers of of kids are creating a 'positive feedback loop' and there is a lot of success in throwing.

the scrimmages (usually shortfield 6v6) are showing some good defense, in a relatively unstructured setting. i stress to the athletes that their focus should be on

throwing
catching
defense

we'll keep it pretty light for another week, then spring break will be the 'mini-camp' we'll increase field size, and focus on flow drills and full scrimmage.

track coaching (the other days) is going well, but mostly i'm just running 30 minutes with the kids. the sprint interval days are on my off days (the ones i coach frisbee) so i'm still doing my intervals on snow. 5x3min last week on some day i'd run sprints with the kids. so i'm not getting morbidly obese.

friday was a day off from school, so friday and saturday i would tour (hike up and ski down) for a few hours. total climb time, 1:45 each day, with ski time too. sunday (today) i did a total of 1:00 of climb time, then a 1:15 total time of skating. friday night i lifted core, pt stuff for foot (balance and foot excercises) (legs (squats, let extension, curls, calves)), today i did the same core/pt stuff, with upper body stuff (chest (push up and machine), pull (machine), pulldown and chinup, dip, millitary press, vertical row)... pretty wiped. up at 6 each day,

if i yearn for anything, it's the first saturday where i can't ski, so i can sleep until i wake up before excercising. of course, that can wait until june.

t