We arrived in Omaha and had a great practice today

We finally arrived in Omaha. Leah, Joe and I, as well as Leah's parents Dave and Tina left Baltimore at 8:30am on our way to Omaha. After a brief stop on Minnesota, we arrived with partly sunny skies about 80 degrees. Almost nice enough to be swimming outside. We got to our hotel for the next 9 days, made a brief stop to unpack, and then Joe, Leah and I headed to the pool (about 6pm). Tonight the plan was to swim the same volume we had been swimming back at home, although this pool is 50 meters of course (in comparison to the 52 meters at the Outdoor pool). On the way to the pool, of course we ran into Tricia and the Tennessee crew....we talked a bit, but then the light turned green so off she went. Joe, Leah and I went to "check in" for the meet, get our credentials (gotta have them with you at all times), get the goodie bags, and then it was time to warm-up. There were a few changes since we were last here, but for the most part it was exactly the same. As Joe and Leah were warming up prior to their workout, I went to the Speedo booth to get the new Lazr suits for both Joe and Leah (as one of WSY sponsors, Speedo is providing Joe and Leah with "the suit"). Pictured here is Natalie Coughlin in one of the custom Olympic Team Lazr Racer's. If you make the team, you will receive a few of these custom made suits. Heard some interesting opinions on the suits.

Most of the athletes are in town getting adjusted to the area that is about to be the largest swim meet in the world. Lots of media (remember this town hosted the College World Series the last few days) in town. NBC trucks all over the place (TV Broadcast schedule is here). I will do my best to upload some video, but it is tough here. NBC owns the rights to all broadcast here and they are very protective of websites streaming video. SwimNetwork will also have some good footage of everything going on here.

After our workout (about 120 minutes) we had dinner, and relaxed. We will have a very simple "wake up" swim in the morning. We are going to wear the new suits simply to get adjusted to wearing them in the water. Joe (who wore the suit in the Open Water World Championships in Spain) says the suits take about 10-15 minutes to get on.

Good luck to those of you at Penn State this weekend. Many of you are swimming in that meet, and we will be following from here. Several WSY family's will also be making there way out here (WSY will have a great cheering section).

That's about it for tonight. I will do my best to add to this a few times each day