CBC coverage of SC Worlds on January 8th

You can watch this Saturday, January 8th, a brief recap of the FINA Short Course World Championships on CBC television or online at http://www.CBCsports.ca. It will air from 2 – 3 pm EST so check your local listings and time zone to make sure you don’t miss it. I am not sure if any of my swims will be aired, but I hope at least my 100 Breast semi-finals will be aired.

Here is a link to CBC, but make sure to check your local listings or online settings so you don’t miss it!

After returning from a brief vacation in southern Africa with my family, I am back to full-time training with my team in Hawaii for the next two weeks. It is great to be in the water again and I am enjoying working really hard in preparation for Canadian Spring Nationals at the end of March. There are six of us training together in our group under our coach Jan Bidrman and strength coach Scott Mauw. We are training at the University of Hawaii and staying nearby as we enjoy escaping the Canadian winter for a few weeks and training outdoors. Other swim teams I have seen training here include University of Minnesota men, University of Wisconsin, University of Houston, Colorado College, Notre Dame, and Cal-Berkeley women. It seems to be a very popular training destination and tourist spot for some reason. It should be a very intense training camp with lots of focused breaststroke training and lots of yardage. Should be fun!

I did want to share a brief video of a lion feeding that my family and I got to witness about two feet away from us. These were two wild lions that had been taken into a game reserve after getting kicked out of their pride in Etosha National Park in Namibia. We got to see all sorts of wild game including an actual lion killing of a springbok that was incredible. Enjoy!