It hasn't been perhaps the best week since I last blogged, but we're all about highlighting the positive, so here goes.

I had a nice time in Am. Samoa, but conditions were not great for practicing pose. I was super busy with work, and there were a couple of times I could have gotten outside, but for the insane tropical storms with sheets of rain. Then there's about two days shot due to travel. I think I only worked out twice in 11 days. So it's good to be home, and good to be back to my schedule. Today I did about a half hour of drills and finally started to understand what's going on with the Switch drill. I'll have to keep playing with it, but I started to get the idea.

I am going back to a more or less single minded concentration on the quickness of my pull. In browsing some pose forum topics recently, I read one of Jack's that was a kind of mini-breakthrough from a theoretical standpoint. He was talking about how the pull has to be quick, or else the body ends up too far forward of the legs, making it necessary to use the hip flexors in getting the leg back up again. Today I had some very quick cadence going as I worked on getting the pull as quick as possible. It felt pretty strange at times, and I think that the crowd of triathletes that was at the track thought it was pretty weird too, based on how they were looking at me.

In more good news, I went ahead and signed up for the Pose mini clinic in southern California next month. I was hesitating because of the cost of airfare for a four hour clinic, but then I found a pretty good deal on airfare, so I figured what the hell. I won't even have to spend the night, so that will make it cheaper. I'm really looking forward to getting some expert advice in real time, even though all the online help has been great. I feel like I'm due for a bit of a breakthrough, and I'm hoping that the clinic will help with that. In looking at others' videos, I'm starting to get a feel for what my errors are, and how they're different or the same from others' errors.