Saturday 5th April 2014
It was another good training day today as we spent the morning at the prestigious Vintage Club and the afternoon back on site at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden.
Due to the qualifying of the Easter Bowl starting today, all of the courts had matches scheduled on them this morning so at 9am we headed a few miles down the road to The Vintage Club. The club is very exclusive and the views are absolutely stunning:
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The view from the entrance of The Vintage Club
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Another stunning view looking out towards the mountains
Katie and I warmed up at around 9.30am and then went through a movement and speed session for 10-15 minutes before finishing with a little medicine ball work. We then had a great session for around an hour and a half where we continued with the work we started yesterday evening. We added in some points towards the end of the session where Katie made me work extremely hard to just stay with her in the rally!!
After the session we headed back to the house to get some lunch and then at 2pm (just when the temperature was really starting to heat up!) we headed over to the tournament site for our second session of the day.
Katie trained with one of her friends from Wichita, Sam Beren, on one of the smaller stadium courts this afternoon which meant she had another opportunity to practice on the tournament surface before she plays on Monday. Katie and Sam warmed up and then played some points which gave us a great chance to work specifically on Katie’s serve and return.
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The pros were here a few weeks ago … now it’s time for the next generation.
Once they had finished Katie and I did some specific on court work for around 20-25 minutes to reinforce the work we did this morning and then we headed straight to the gym to go through her tournament fitness programme. By 5pm we had finished the programme, cooled down and stretched out which ended another very good training day.
We had just over an hour before dinner, so, while Katie got stuck into some school work, I hit the roads for a pretty tough 7.5 mile run. The programme I’m following should be tapering down now as there is only 8 days to go until the marathon but it still seems to be hard work!
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After another excellent dinner from Nicki, we all chilled out while watching the NCAA Final Four basketball and then it was an early night all round to make sure we’re ready for a final day’s preparation tomorrow.
