Floswimming

Big thanks again to the SCAQ blog for this find. Floswimming includes insightful blogs, news feeds from various swimming publications, photo galleries, and best of all, really interesting videos of interviews with college and elite swimmers and coaches, as well a bunch of workout videos that give you an inside look as to how the cream of the crop train. There is also a section for user videos, social networking and interactive swim logs.

Recent videos include dryland at Texas A&M, interviews with Bob Bowman, and workouts at Texas A&M, USC, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The Wisconsin one is really fun to watch and I got tired just watching the Texas dryland workout...yikes!

Dara Torres & Ryan Lochte in NYTimes

Seems like the NYTimes is on a swimming streak. Two articles on swimmers over the past few weeks. Check 'em out [Torres link, Lochte link]. Thanks to the SCAQ blog for original post on the Dara Torres article.

Picture by Marc Serota for The New York Times

Water Exhibit at AMNH

Interesting exhibit now on display at the American Museum of Natural History. Find out more on the museum's website.

Underwater video

By now everyone should have received a copy of their underwater swim video. If you were videotaped and did not receive a copy, please contact Patricia. Stay posted for the review date.
PS

Swim vacation?

For those of you un-afraid of swimming without lane lines and chlorine, there are two great open water swims in the Caribbean coming up this fall. One is in Bermuda (October 20th), the other, Bonaire (November 10th). Both are great events--I'll be swimming the 10k's, but there's also a 1 mile, 5k and everything in-between. Beautiful water, well-organized races, and drinks with umbrellas--what's not to love?
For more info:
http://www.aquamoonadventures.com/

Evening Practice Hours

For those of you who don't know, our evening practice hours have changed. MWF practice begins at 8pm. Many of you that were polled have expressed a desire to go back to the previous (7:30pm) practice schedule, stay tuned to see what happens. As of now, plan on coming at 8pm. Morning TTh and Sun practice times remain the same. Ignore the YMCA program guide, it's riddled with misprints we are trying to have corrected.

Roosevelt Island

Anybody interested in getting some practice dives in off the blocks at Roosevelt Island? Mondays at 7pm, who's game? Post your comment here! We will be meeting there Monday 10/15 at 7pm instead of at Vanderbilt. The pool is next to the tennis courts (look for big fluffy cloud). The rec center is a red brick building--entrance is near the back towards the East River.

Upcoming Masters Meets

Hey Swimmers-
If you've never done a pool meet, now's the time to give it a try! It would be great if we could get a whole big group together (I get lonely with no one cheering me on the blocks!) Here's some of the upcoming events....the first one is coming up soon. So let me know if you're interested in going!
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Upcoming Metropolitan LMSC Events:
Sun Nov 4 BAMM SCY Meet--C.W. Post--Entries due Thurs Oct 25
Sun Nov 18th Westchester Masters SCM Meet--Joseph Caputo Community Center, Ossining NY
Sat Dec 8th Yonkers Masters SCY Meet--MTHS Yonkers, NY--Entries due Fri Nov 30
Sun Dec 16th SCM Metro Championships Nassau County Aquatic Center, Eisenhower Park LI--Entries due Mon Dec 10
Visit the Links page for more USMS Swim Info and entry forms at http://www.metroswim.org

Grimaldo's Mile 2007

Results by overall standing and age group

Team pictures - don't we look cute?

Thanks for taking these great underwater shots, Patricia! Working out some of the glitches of this photostream but enjoy what you can see for now!

Colonies Zone LCM Championships

David will be competing at the LCM Championships in Maryland in just one week! He'll be racing in the 100, 200, 400 and 800 free as well as the 100 breast and 100 fly. Phew! We wish you the best of luck!

And, thanks, David, all the Grimaldo's Mile swimmers and NYC Tri folks, among others, for competing - now no one (i.e. our wonderful coach) can say we don't have competitors on our team :D

Therese Alshammar

Wow - look at that underwater kick! Again, that must be what Igor means by kicking up and down with minimum amplitude. It's like she's on super fast forward! Therese Alshammar recently set a new world record of 25.46 in the 50m fly in Barcelona on the Mare Nostrum circuit [video] but this video is of her winning the 50m fly race in Melbourne earlier this year at the FINA World Championships. Watch the underwater replay!

Man, talk about flying!

Just thought this was an awesome picture. The photo is from guyomedw at Flickr and I first saw it via the SCAQ blog which has posts on Therese Alshammar and got me looking for more pics and videos of her swimming fly.

Guess this is what Igor means when he says we have to throw our arms forward!

NYC Triathlon - Go Kate! Go Libby!

Update: Kate and Libby both finished with great times! Congratulations to both of you! View the results at the tracking site. And, check back in two days for a 30-second clip of each athlete crossing the finish line.

Kate and Libby will be competing in the upcoming NYC Triathlon this Sunday, July 22. The race consists of a 1500 m swim in the Hudson, a 40 km bike through Manhattan and the Bronx and a 10 km run through the Park. The Finish line is on Dead Road (great name), just west of the bandshell on the 72nd Street Transverse in Central Park.

Good luck to both of you! We're rooting for you even if we can't be there in person to yell out your names :)

The Floating Pool is in business

(c) Julienne Schaer

The NYTimes CityRoom blog chronicled the well-received opening (and re-opening) of the barge pool floating on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront. Hope some of you get to check it out soon.