Optakt til Great Danes-tur med landstræner Dean Boles
18-01-2017 19:55:00:
Af: Johanne Tolstrup
Great Danes-truppen skal i den kommende periode både konkurrere og være på træningslejr. Læs meget mere her, hvor landstræner Dean Boles fortæller om turen!
Den 21. januar går det løs for Great Danes-truppen, som i den kommende tid skal deltage i intet mindre end to internationale stævner med en træningslejr imellem. Den 21.- 22. januar vil holdet deltage ved Flanders Cup i Antwerpen og den 27.-29. januar vil truppen konkurrere ved Luxemborg Euro Meet. Imellem de to stævner vil holdet være på træningslejr ved det belgiske nationale træningscenter fra d. 23.-26. januar og dette koncept er en bevidst valgt strategi af landstræner Dean Boles:
- The concept is to Compete-Train-Compete and therefore we will have 2 back-to-back competitions with some training in between. The focus of the training piece will be the “technical nature”, fortæller Dean.
- Furthermore, we will videotape races from Flanders Cup January 21-22, Antwerpen and then teach the swimmers to do a simple analysis of the race on their own computers. Christian Timm Kejser Hartz from Team Denmark Performance is an analysist and he will lead this part of the tour. The training will have a technical focus on starts, turns and stroke efficiency. We will do this work after the first competition at the Belgium national training and after that, we will move to Luxembourg Euro Meet January 27-29 for the second meet, uddyber Dean.
For Great Danes-truppen kommer denne tur til at byde på det første langbane-stævne i 2017, hvilket forhåbentlig vil give en god indikation på, hvor de danske svømmere befinder sig i øjeblikket:
- These two competitions are the first long-course meets for the swimmers. Therefore, the focus will be to see where the swimmers are at the moment in a competition situation. Hopefully, this will give us an idea of what we have to work with towards Danish Open, fortæller Dean.
Det er ingen hemmelighed, at de danske svømmere lige nu ligger i tung træning, hvilket vil få en vis betydning for truppens præstationer, men ikke desto mindre er det en vigtig del af processen, at svømmerne også konkurrerer i træningstunge perioder:
- The swimmers are in a build-up situation right now and they are in a very heavy training phase. Therefore, the performances will be varied depending on the individual but the long-course-racing will help them to progress further, fortæller Dean.
Slutteligt lægger Dean ikke skjul på, at han håber på at se, at de danske svømmere formår at svømme nogle veludførte og veldisponerede løb og en ny race-data-base skal danne et godt grundlag for den kommende sæson.
- I would like to see the races executed well for this time of the season with the intent to be better than last year at this time. I hope that the swimmers will be able to follow a race plan and I am excited to see, how well they can hit their split times, fortæller Dean.
- Furthermore, I have introduced the coaches of the Great Danes-team and of the Senior-Team to a new “tailored made” race-model-plan, where we will put some individual info about the swimmers into a large race-data-base and hopefully, this will give us some key information about the swimmers and this information will help us reach new targets. I look forward to see how things turn up the next few months, afslutter Dean.
Følgende svømmere vil deltage på Great Danes-turen:
Tobias Bjerg, AGF
Nicolas Blanch, Aalborg Svømmeklub
Jacob Jørgensen,
Giano Grillo, Hovedstadens Svømmeklub
Jonas Kistorp, Lyngbu Svømmeklub
Philip Greve, Farum Svømmeklub
Josephine Holm, KVIK Kastrup
Caroline Erichsen, Sigma Swim Birkerød
Maria Grandt, Hovedstadense Svømmeklub
Josefine B. Pedersen, VAT Copenhagen - MK31
Maj Howardsen, Sigma Swim Allerød
Mange tak til Dean for interviewet!
