*Video produced by SwimSwam contributor Coleman Hodges.*
The championship banner has been raised down in Athens and now the Bulldogs are back to work. Last Tuesday afternoon Jack Bauerle took the distance group and 400 IMers at Georgia through some active recovery efforts.
In this interview with Garrett McCaffrey, Bauerle gets into the details of the set. What type of workouts came before this in the week. Who was doing the set and why. Even some of the amazing times he saw throughout the practice. Here is the set, as written by the legendary coach himself.
This is awesome. I love to hear how fast some of the best go in practice. I don’t really have anyone close to me on my own team to compete with during practice so its inspiring to hear what “can” be done.
Thursdays are the day that we generally do active rest work like this so I let my distance group take a crack at a slightly abridged version of this set and I was thrilled with the results!!!
We did:
2x 400 4:45 Descend
100 1:30 EZ
2x 300 3:40 Descend [Start faster than 2nd 400 Pace] 100 1:30 EZ
200 Dr/Sw (100 Free/100 MS)
3x 200 2:40 Best Average [1 & 3 are done MS, IMers do MS/WS]
100 1:30 EZ
200 Dr/Sw (100 Free/100 MS)
3x 2×50 :50 Max Effort finish to a turn on #1 [Rds 1 & 3 are MS]
100 EZ 1:30
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Coach Jack and coach Harvey are GREAT HUMANS and GREAT COACHES. Their workouts are great to begin with. Mostly, their 1st class personalities have truly been keys for the success of UGA swim/dive program for YEARS. Anyone will recognize the secret of UGA swim/dive success if having a chance to work with them side by side for a few weeks. GO DAWGS!