I will attend the grand opening of the new indoor swimming pool in Martigny along with some swimmers from Vevey Natation. They’re going to do some exhibition swims and I will do a finswimming presentation.

Vue intérieure du nouveau bassin encore en chantier.

Martigny s’apprête à inaugurer pour sa nouvelle piscine couverte et je ferai une démonstration de nage avec palmes avec quelques nageurs du Vevey Natation qui à leur tour vont faire une démonstration de natation.

I’ll be attending the first day of this year’s Finswimming National Championships in Brig. The meet will be held outdoors at the Geschina pool. Because I will only be able to attend the first day of competition I’ll be competing in a bunch of races (some of which I wouldn’t usually swim like the 400FS).

On Saturday March, 13 and Sunday March, 14 the annual Coupe Indoors will be held at the pool in Meyrin. I’ll be attending the Saturday afternoon session and swimming the 200BF and the relays with my team the Dauphins Genève. Full meet information are available on the Swiss Finswimming website.

You might remember my meet up with Cassandra in Tenerife. Jens, her dad, now launched a new finswimming community called “Fin City“. Go there to meet others that are passionate about finswimming and just for about anything related to finswimming.

As of right now I plan to attend this year’s Finswimming competition in Tenero.

I’ll be attending the 1st day of competition in Fiesch. Please visit the SLRG Oberwallis website for more information on the event.

I’ll be competing only on Saturday and swimming the 100m FS, 100m and 200m BF. Check out the official website of the meet for a whole lot more information.

The 2nd round of the CMAS Finswimming World Cup was held from Friday, February 13 to Sunday, February 15 at the Y. Blanc pool in Aix en Provence. I did compete in the 50m apnea and the 200m surface on Saturday.

Our group composed of 5 athletes from our team, the Dauphins Genève and 1 athlete from the SLRG Oberwallis left Geneva on Friday morning to get to Aix en Provence in time, so we could watch the long distance races of the first day. On the morning of the 2nd day I had my 50m apnea which did go reasonable well but unfortunately with my time of 20.05, I was off my personal best.

Considering this was the first race of the morning and I was still trying to wake up and get all those impressions of being at the World Cup to sink in, I was happy with my performance.

Before the afternoon session there was the official “Opening Ceremony”. Nothing other than a presentation of all the countries and teams competing at the meet while walking into the pool. And of course some short speeches of the meet organizers and other “important” people. Although it probably killed my legs, it was a lot of fun as all the athletes really came together for a short time during this meet.

With my legs already sore from the walking, I still had to step up for my 200m surface race. It’s wasn’t a good race as I encountered major problems with my snorkel after the dive. I almost had to stop after my under water phase to put the snorkel back in place for racing. What followed was me going out to fast on the first 100m to catch up with the other swimmers in my heat and dying on that second 100m of the race.

After spending two fun days in Aix en Provence, I had to take the TGV on the same night to go back home. Although I still need to improve a lot, it was a lot of fun. Unfotunately, the end of this journey marked the end of my college break as well … so back to life and school since Monday.

Article on the SUSV – FSSS Blog about the Finswimming Championships in Meyrin.