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Alvaranga and some of her local neighbours pools shut down around the world,

from the swimming fraternity are trying to coaches and athletes will now

regain their fitness and feel for the water by recalibrate and embrace the next

venturing to the beach. Coach Rory challenge post-COVID-19 to try to

Alvaranga says, “The Sea is our best option get swimmers back on track with

for an early return to some semblance of competitive swimming. Technically,

swimming despite conditions not always we are near ground zero now and will

being encouraging.” Coach Alvaranga went start to build back the best technique

on to say: even better than before and then get

the sprint and pace with the enhanced
“There are mornings we can only

technique to regain race readiness for
perform kick sets due to choppy seas
the next competition."
and then there are the mornings that

the sea is overrun by Sargassum AUTHOR: Sherneil Charlery –

seaweed, which forces us to run the Girlsinsports785@gmail.com

sands and perform other land

activities on the beach…We are

eagerly awaiting the re-opening of the

pools to shift gears in the training

regime. We swim up to 3000m some

mornings and when the surf is flat,

sprint some 25m and 50m sprint sets.

Given health risks and the disruption

of training as gyms and swimming