Time to renew your USMS registration

Register today so you can be eligible for this year's events. Yes, right now! To register go to: www.metroswim.org/register.html. Our club code is VYMM

January events

-Team NY is sponsoring USMS 1 hour Postal January 20th and 27th. See how far you can swim in one hour! It will be at John Jay College

-Snowball Yard Meet-Kingston, NY January 26--Road trip, anyone? You need to register by January 12th. Contact Patricia if you're interested

For more info and other upcoming events, go to: www.metroswim.org/results.html

Polar Bear Plunge

New Year's Day there was a big turnout despite the morning drizzles..

Time to get back in the pool...

Igor's back, and the new session starts tonight. Prices have changed for the program, it is now $65 for members, $200 for non-members. Sign up today!

Registration deadline is January 16 in order to be permitted to practice with the team.

See you in the pool!
Cap'n P

Snow swim 12.2.2007

We swam 20mins, it was snowing with a light mist over the water Water was 46F, air temp 26F.

Congrats Amir!

Amir rocked it out at the Golden Jubilee Competition in Dallas Texas y'all. His time was 22.7 in the 50y and 50.8 in the 100. Way to go cowboy!

US SCY Nationals

Watch the entire meet on swimnetwork.com and view highlights and commentary, pics and video on wcsn.com. Some highlights Lochte beats Phelps in the 200 IM and Natalie Coughlin sets a new 50 free American record.

Ziegler on a roll!

Ziegler broke her American record in the 1650 free at the Tom Dolan Invitational at George Mason University. She swam a 15:29.15, going 25.53 the first 50, staying at around 28 for most of the swim and coming home faster than her first 50 at 25.45. Not bad.

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!
PS

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