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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Week 34: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week</p>
Swimmers,

There are three weeks to go before we arrive at our NTP/ODP/HIM goal races for this season and I’d like to take a moment to address the plan for the next few weeks.

Our program is currently designed to push you towards these goal rac…[Read more]

Week 33: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Swimmers,

A big congratulations to two of our coaches and a number of our swimmers for tackling the Great Chesapeake Bay 4.4 mile swim! Also, congratulations go out to our swimmers that raced 70.3 Eagleman as well as other local races! It’s great to see everyone getting solid res…[Read more]

Week 32: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Swimmers,

Congrats to everyone who raced this weekend or participated in the community with the various rides and runs! It was a weekend of bizarre weather, but at races and through social media, we saw a bunch of you crushing it, so kudos!

As with last week, we are stopping w…[Read more]

Week 30: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Swimmers, congrats to all who raced this weekend at the Mid East Club Championships, General Smallwood, or at St. Mary’s!! If you raced and had a good swim, please let us know! Likewise, if you raced and felt you could have done better in the swim, please also let us know! Half of…[Read more]

Week 28: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Congrats to all who raced this weekend! I, along with other MSP coaches, were out at Peasantman and saw a great number of current and former MSP swimmers challenging themselves! Great job, everyone, and remember to keep both tires on the pavement, lest you end up like yours t…[Read more]

Week 27: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

First of all, congrats to all who raced this weekend! A number of MSP swimmers ran the National Women’s Half Marathon and the North Face Endurance Challenge. Great job on a beautiful weekend to be outside!

Secondly, the UDC pool is still hovering at 74 degrees. The MSP is loo…[Read more]

Week 26: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Swimmers, we are continuing Phase 4 of our program with week 26 and since last week was a short week (as Monday was a DC holiday), we have one more day of scheduled testing sessions. If you have not yet done the time trial tests for both the 1000 and the 100, please come tomorrow e…[Read more]

Week 24: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

This is the last week of Phase 3! For those of you who ran in the Cherry Blossom 10 Miler this weekend, congratulations!

If you are just joining us, welcome! For those who have been to our sessions, we’re glad you’re developing your skills with us!. For those who are yet to join…[Read more]

Week 23: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Note: This is also not an April Fool’s post

Swimmers, welcome to Week 23! Before we delve into some discussion points, I just wanted to remind everyone (again) that there is NO AM swim tomorrow morning. Andre, the pool manager, will not be available and AM swims will continue on…[Read more]

Week 22: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Welcome to Week 22, the start of the second half of Phase 3 of our program!

This week we are continuing to develop our open water swimming techniques and skills by building on the Alligator Eyes technique we have practiced the last 3 weeks. While we will still have some A…[Read more]

Week 21: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Welcome to Week 21, swimmers! Did anyone training for longer distance races do the extra sets? I personally viewed a number of swimmers stay later to add some extra distance. Kudos to those who did a little bit extra this week! As a swim coach, it’s often difficult to add in all…[Read more]

Week 20: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events, and Workouts of the Week

Welcome to Week 20, swimmers, and the week we start differentiating workouts for our Half Iron, Iron, and longer open water distance swimmers. If your goal races are Sprint and Olympic Distance races, don’t pay any attention to the additional instruction given later in the wor…[Read more]

Swimmers, week 16 is upon us!

Did you start the recommended core exercises in preparation for phase 3 that starts in March? Hopefully you did some of the recommended planks and supermans! If you happened to gloss over it from last week, currently we are prescribing a total (not all at once!) of 3 minutes of front plank and 3 minutes of…[Read more]

Week 15: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events and Workouts:

Swimmers, it’s week 15 of the Masters Swim Program

This past weekend, the New Triathlete Program (NTP) kicked off and for those NTP athletes joining us, welcome to Masters Swimming! For our returning athletes, if you see someone new, feel free to say hi!

To provide a brief introduction of…[Read more]

Week 14: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events and Workouts:

Swimmers, welcome to Week 14 of our program!
This week, we head into our first days of February and with that, our program has been going strong and building up momentum for three months! Currently, we are approximately half way to the early season races and one third of the way to the club g…[Read more]

Week 13: Coach’s Notes and Workouts:

Swimmers, welcome to Week 13 of our program. This is the luckiest week as this is the first full week of having three practices in both AM and PM sessions in a long while. Further, even with the federal government shutdown status in question, all of the DC Pools will be open, so if you happen to be off work f…[Read more]

Week 12: Coach’s Notes, Upcoming Events and Workouts

Swimmers,

Welcome to Week 12!

Over the weekend, we held our second Beginner and Intermediate Swimming Technique Clinic and we wanted to express our thanks to those of you who attended and provided great feedback on Sunday. If you feel that you learned something and had a great experience, p…[Read more]