Just another day in paradise.

Another beautiful morning and another 6am practice at Punahou high school. Although the water tastes funny, I am always very surprised how nice the facilities are - it can be compared to most commercial pools back home.

Most guys did the fun “Christmas Tree Set” while I had to repeat the set I did poorly on yesterday. These were all nice sets all around and the practice (and the following dryland with Coach B) went on surprisingly quickly. After the practice we all made it for brunch in “Hawaiian Foco” (aka Halo Aloha Dining Hall) where good part of us leisured for a couple of hours. Since today was our second double in a row, and we all felt beaten, most of the guys decided to take a really long nap instead of going to the beach. As there is always an exception Joby took a van with 2 other guys and went hiking, but got splashed in mud along the way - the van now have “mud racing stripes” all over (I have to admit, although it’s dirty, it looks really cool).

We had somewhat early afternoon practice due to the weird dining hall hours - and the practice was a blast. I suspected that it’ll be fun as soon as Jim asked us to bring our racing suits, however, I did not expect so much racing.

A lot of stand-ups and a lot of races, while pushing each other on every rep. Big shoutout to Misha, who absolutely killed the two-hundreds with 1:44’s on second set!

After a run to a dinning hall, for what was our last meal there, we all got into our team-bonding activities and got ready for what will be our second to last practice.

Just another day in paradise.

-Bruno Korbar '18