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joe roebuck- swimmer
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5th June 1985 |
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Rotherham |
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Joe Roebuck missed out on funding by an extremely narrow margin, ranked 17th in all of his major events, when he needed to reach 16th in order to be eligible.
Joe made his first senior international meet when he competed at the European Championships 2006.
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april 2007 blog
April was the start of another training cycle and began with me attending a three day British Swimming camp in Swansea after Easter from the 12th – 14th.
It was quite productive camp for a short period of time, I picked up a few technical tips especially on turn techniques; one of biggest weakness in my swims. I also was able to put in some solid training as I had not had much time off over Easter and was in better shape than many people present on the camp.
April ended with British swimmers racing at the stage 1 meet at Loughborough.
I won the 200m Butterfly here easily with a short course P.B of 1.56.80, nd placed finished way behind in a 2.03. I raced the 200m I.M final closely after, and came 3rd which wasn’t a bad result racing tired. I now look ahead to continuing the cycle through May and competing in a few open meets to check my progress.
march 2007 blog
March was a very good month for me; it finished with me competing at the British Championships in Manchester. Leading into this meet I had not had the best of cycles, I was swimming quite disappointingly throughout January and the start of February which was the beginning of the cycle.
This had not given me much of a base to improve on throughout the cycle and I was unable to win the 200m Butterfly at the BUSA Championships. This was quite disappointing for me but it acted as a wake up call, and since then I was a lot more mentally focussed.
My training improved and I began to hit fast times in test sets and heart rate sets again, the sort of times I know I needed to be hitting in order to but in a strong performance at the British Championships. This paid off and I was able to defend two of my titles as the British Champion from last year on the 200m Butterfly and the 400m I.M. I narrowly missed defending all three of my titles from the year before coming a very close 2nd on the 200m Individual Medley behind Euan Dale, a fellow Loughborough swimmer.
I was second on the 200m I.M with a time of 2.02.1 which beat our GB representatives and would have placed me 13th in the semi-final at the Worlds in Melbourne. My 200 fly time would have placed me 21st with my time of 1.59.3 and my 400m I.M would have put me in 13th place again with a 4.19.9.
I was also strong enough to qualify for the World University Games to be held in Bangkok later in the year which was my main aim for the meet. Attaining these tough qualifying times showed that I was back on track to establishing my self on the world scene. I am now back down to hitting race times that I have been unable to get close to for a year and have the back up of coming of the end of a strong cycle so as I move into this next cycle I am in a very strong position to improve and get on the podium at the World University Games. In addition to qualifying for the World Uni’s the times I have done now put me in strong contention to go the World Short Course later in the year as they take the top two times done in the last year in each event.
I am now looking forward to getting back into training and having a really strong, uninterrupted cycle. I have spoken with my coach and we still feel that there are areas of improvement to be addressed. I felt I was lacking race practice coming into this last meet so over the next cycle we are going to actively seek out meets including French nationals to gain some international race experience before I go to Bangkok in August. I am now in a very positive position to move forward with my swimming over the next 3 months.
february 2007 blog
February forms the toughest month of our training cycle, it contains the maximum weekly distances covered through this cycle.
It also contains every training session and energy system that we work on in the course of a cycle; aerobic 1, aerobic 2, anaerobic threshold, VO2 max, basic speed, lactate tolerance and max heart rate sets.
I am pleased to say that my training times are currently improving weekly and I am making good progress through this cycle. I have also raced this month for the University at the long course BUSA Championships, (British Universities).
I competed well here, my times were equal to what they were this time last year in my preparation to last years British Championships where I won three gold’s and achieved my personal best times.
After last years British Championships, I had an unfortunate run of illness and injury leading up to the long course European Championships in Budapest.
This was unfortunate and led to me not competing nearly as well as I would have hoped, I was regrettably still suffering from tonsillitis while in Budapest and taking my second course of antibiotics.
However I now feel that I am getting back into top form, I have had another straight run at training not interrupted by much illness or injury and am looking forward to competing at the end of March in Manchester, 26th – 1st April. I am racing my main events again, 200m and 400m Individual Medley and 200m Butterfly.
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