This morning's 7:15 am warm-up run inside the Oval proved a little more challenging as the route took campers up and down the aisle stairs through the spectator seating area. Then, it was onto the ice for one hour where participants did 2 laps on / 2 laps off x 5, 1 lap on / 1 lap off x 5 and 100m on / 300m off x 5. During the ice session, skaters were video-recorded in the front straight and corner for later review and coaching.
Todd McClements was, once again, the morning's presenter of a seminar on the interesting, but complex, subject of Decision Training as opposed to Behaviour Training. This provided the masters present with some new coaching theory concepts and ideas to take back to their respective home clubs.
During the afternoon warm-up, many participants opted to play soccer in a pick-up game where masters tied the home team 2-2. The final and deciding shoot-out was about to commence when Coach Neal called the masters to head back to the Oval for the afternoon ice session.
After an on-ice warm-up of laps and accel's, each master was timed in a 400m tempo skate to help seed competitors for the coming Saturday morning time trials. Additional video-analysis was completed to be added to a CD to be made available to campers later in the week.
Finally, a session of standing starts ended the day with additional coaching by Olympian Kevin Crockett.
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