Day 1 - Peter Hewitt '10

We left Wednesday morning after a tough workout at Wabash. The bus ride was as entertaining as a 21 hour bus ride can be - which is, by the way, not very. We kept busy by watching movies like Talladega Nights, V For Vendetta, and Constantine. By the time 9 hours on the bus had gone by, it wasn't too difficult to fall asleep… I just had to get used to the snores from eleven different people - and the music from Bob Dent’s iPod. When we woke up we were just two hours from Deerfield Beach, the team’s first 4000 long course meters, and an afternoon filled with hotel check ins, and a trip to the grocery store. When looking at everyone’s food I started to wonder how some of these people would manage to consume everything they bought… for example I saw someone with 7 gallons of milk - I suppose we are swimmers and have to eat a lot. Later that afternoon we got in our second workout of the day… it like most of our practices was very difficult. Right now we are focusing on aerobic based workouts and are all still adjusting to swimming in a long course pool. I’ll tell you what though, the intense practices have not gotten in the way of us having a good time! (Pictures: Top Right - The team settles into a 20 hour bus ride. Lower Left: Craig Vetor settles into his two breakfast burritos, two egg mcmuffins, and two sausage biscuits! - yes, "the human garbage disposal")

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Petro showing off his new tattoo and the team arriving at the pool for their first workout.