Freestyle – Open Water Clinic

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Mar 252013
 

Flyer Urban EscapeCome join me at Indian Valley College in Novato on Sunday, April 7th for a Freestyle / Open Water Clinic. The first hour will be dedicated to tuning up your freestyle stroke with some innovative drills. The second hour will be on open water skills such as drafting; pack swimming; breathing; rounding buoys; swimming straight, swimming in choppy water, etc. The clinic runs from 12:30-2:30. Cost is $25 for members of Urban Escape Fitness and $35 to non members. We have the entire 50m pool available to us and it is going to be fun!

Click the image to download the clinic flyer which has all the information you’ll need about the clinic and how to register. Hope you can join me!

Meet Results – USF!

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Mar 232013
 

Available early April, cost $10 !

Congratulations to Swymnut Jane Mothersill for a great performance today. It was her first swim as a Swymnut Master! Jane swam with me in the USF March Madness Meet at Koret Hall in San Francisco. She swam four events in a row and looked very good (100 free 1:17.24, 6th; 50 fly 40.28, 3rd;, 100 breast 1:34.72, 2nd; and in 50 back 42.97, 1st!!). She had some very good times and her backstroke is beautiful!

I was happy with my five swims too (all done in a 3-hour swim meet format). Muffed one turn on my first event, the 100 Free, but the rest of the meet went very well for me. I even achieved a lifetime best in 100 backstroke after a dream start (a pretty rare occurrence for me).

It was wonderful to be competing again and back with friends. A big shout out to Erica Sutherland (UNAT), Kate Thorp (Marin Pirate),  Margaret de Somma (North Bay Aquatics) and Loleta Velosa (San Diego) who were strong and beautiful in the water. Another shout out to Alan Bernard (TAM) looking especially great in his 100 free and 100 fly and to some pretty speedy Mud Shark friends as well.

Also had the opportunity to connect up with coaches and swimmers that have been in some of our recent Pac Masters swim clinics and hearing about – and seeing – their progress today. Way to go to all the swimmers and their coaches!

Here is the link to the USF Meet results: http://www.pacificmasters.org/comp/13/13UsfScuSplit.html

Next up is the Pac Masters Short Course Yards Champs April 5-6-7. Entries are due by Weds, March 27th at 11:59 p.m. Registration information here: https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1301&smid=4485. I’ll be there Saturday swimming 5 events and possibly Friday for the 1650 free (schedule allowing). Can’t make it Sunday!

2013 USMS High Performance Camp, Aug 24-29, 2013

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Mar 012013
 

Hey all you masters swimmers out there, come check out the brochure for the 2013 USMS High Performance Camp to be held August 24-29, 2013 in Greensboro, NC. Applications are being accepted now and closing date is May 24th. I’ll be coaching again there this year and am so excited to be doing this. We had an amazing time last year with our 20 campers and four coaches. We witnessed all kinds of stroke transformations take place last year. If you want to significantly improve your technique, you will most definitely benefit from this camp which is worth every penny!

The 2012 Campers & Coaches

The 2012 Campers & Coaches

 

Here is the 2013-HPC-Brochure.

Camaraderie!

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Jan 062013
 

I was absolutely blessed this morning to swim a 5000 yard challenge workout with good friends from several teams. We had Jim Gloystein, Susie Powell, Sarah Larroque, Jimmy & Cat Nam, Terry Powers, Shari Cruse, Nicole Coll, Lynn Forsey, Erica Sutherland, Kate Thorp and Shannon O’Hare take up the challenge. Not only did we all do the 5000 yards (most yards that almost all of us had ever done), about half of us added on another 350 yards to make an even 3 miles!

Swimming is about fitness and friendships – friendships that span the years and the teams. It really doesn’t matter what team you are affiliated with. We proved that today with 5 teams represented in today’s challenge. We had swimmers from Swymnuts, Marin Pirates Masters, Rolling Hills Mud Sharks, Rolling Hills Swim Fit, and one unattached.

We hooted and hollered our way through the workout, which was such a blast. Definitely better than trying to do this solo! We had baggies of cut up oranges, and baggies of trail mix to keep us going. Each set of 5 x 100s was different, and we regrouped after each 5 x 100 set so that we would send off at the same time. We are thinking of trying to do this perhaps monthly with a goal to reach 7500 yards later this year and then 10,000 yards in the late fall.

Here are some pictures we took during and after the workouts. Congrats to all the swimmers for this terrific accomplishment!

Susie Powell

Susie Powell

Jim Gloystein

Jim Gloystein

Cat Nam

Cat Nam

We did it!

We did it!

5000+ yards. Yowza! And we can still lift our arms.

5000+ yards. Yowza! And we can still lift our arms.

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I think Nicole, waving the fin, can do another 5000 yards.

Pac SCY Champs Results

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Apr 022012
 

If you are curious to know how the competitors did at the 2012 Pac Masters SCY Champs, you can find the results in a few different places. Congratulations to all those who swam. Saturday’s conditions were pretty miserable, but still they came!

You can try SwimPhone.com. Their link is: http://www.swimphone.com/mobile/meets/event_order.cfm?smid=3492

Or, you can visit HyTek at: http://www.pacificmasters.org/swmeets//2012_03_30_PMS_SCY_Champs/

For those mobile viewers, if you have Active.com’s Meet Mobile app you can follow them on your phone or iPad.