The week before Kona I got a surprise phone call from Jack Bauerle, the head swim coach at the University of Georgia.
Jack’s been coaching the Dawgs for 30+ years, and before that he was actually on the team! His resume is crazy, with five NCAA team titles and more individuals championships than I can count. Not to mention he was the head coach for the 2008 US Women’s Olympic Team!
I had the honor of swimming for Jack and the other outstanding coaches at UGA while I was going to school there from 2003 – 2007, and the lessons I learned while there are still helping me today. Jack did an interview with SwimSwam about a recent swim workout that I think is definitely worth a watch. He talks through both the set that day and the typical weekly schedule at Georgia. It’s a fun and honest inside look at the intense but awesome world of college swimming!
http://swimswam.com/coachs-log-distance-day-georgia/
And what about that pre-Kona phone call? You can bet Jack gave me some very solid advice:
“Hale, if you get behind, just do backstroke.”
My secret weapon revealed! Who’s wants to paddle board sight for me?!?! Pretty sure I can go sub-50!!
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I totally will! All those practices doing backstroke when everyone else did freestyle…
Yeah!! Let’s do it! Or you could just swim it too and then maybe we’ll see dolphins!!