We left from Geneva airport early in the morning. Our first flight went from Geneva to Barcelona where we had an almost 3 hours layover before we took the next flight this time nonstop to Tenerife North. From there we had a bus ride of about an hour to the other end of the island to our hotel.
On Sunday Dec 6th I participated at the Copa da Natal hosted by the Flippers Team Locarno at the Centro Sportivo di Tenero. We left around noon on the day before the meet to bring the 6h travel involved in getting from Geneva to Tenero behind us in a more or less stress free and comfortable manner. Even though I felt tired because my studies kept me busy and up late many nights, I was looking forward to compete in LCM again. Finswimming is just a different beast in SCM with twice as much under water work involved. And of course ...
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It's been two full weeks back to school for me after my three months summer of coaching in the Florida Keys. Mark Hill, former Head Coach of the Florida Keys Swim Club and assistant Race Club Coach, who left the Keys after two years to go back to work for his mentor Mike Bottom, former Race Club Coach, at the University of Michigan gave me this great opportunity to work with his team during the summer.
This year's Finswimming Championships were held on Saturday, June 6 and Sunday, June 7 at the Centro Sportivo in Tenero. Unfortunately, the first day of the meet had to be canceled due to heavy rain and thunderstorms. As a consequence of this, Sunday was packed with events as the organizers decided to integrate most of the events into the program of this second day of competition.
The 6th round of the CMAS Finswimming World Cup was held on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 at the Centro Sportivo (outdoor) pool in Tenero. I did only participate on the 2nd day of competition on Saturday but did take on 4 race that same day.
L'édition 2009 du Meeting de Printemps a eu lieu le samedi 25 avril à la piscine de Tivoli à Lancy. Ceci était la première compétition après les Championnats Suisse en grand bassin et les Championnats Suisses des Clubs. Bien qu'on avait fait une petite pause après ces deux échéances, nous n'avons pas perdu de temps pour reprendre le travail en dehors et dans l'eau.
This summer I'll be heading to the Florida Keys once again. Only this time, the main purpose for my visit won't be my personal swimming but the swimming of the Florida Keys Swim Club athletes. I'm going to do some coaching along with Mark Hill, head coach of the FKSC. My plane ticket is already booked and my flight is leaving on Sunday, June 14 from Zurich Airport. I'm looking forward to a great summer in the Keys and learning from Mark's experiences and hopefully bring some of my personal experience to the team. If some of you are in the ...
March 2010:
I'll be going to a couple local and regional meets over the next few weeks to promote The Race Club and see some of my friends.
Other swimming events coming up are LC Nationals and Team Championships. I'll be not competing at LC Nationals this time and haven't made a decision on the Team event.
Check out my calendar for more events.
It’s again time to take a quick look back at the last year and bring up some statistics about 2009. In short, you’ll know what happened last year and what I look forward to in 2010. There are some things I can’t just share yet but you’ll have a pretty good idea what my plans for this year will look like.
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Go Swim announced their iPhone App. Those of you who visit the Go Swim website know that there is a lot of useful and interesting content to find and know you can take all with you in your pocket (at least those with an iPhone or iTouch). Go to the announcement on the Go Swim website for more information on the App’s features and some preview screenshots. By the way, if you click on the icon on the left iTunes will open and automatically direct you to the App Store to download the Go Swim iPhone App. (0) # Short video of me swimming fly at slow speed in the flume channel at the Tenerife Top Training.
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This completes my daily bits from Tenerife. I’m sitting at the airport Tenerife North while I start writing this last entry. Today wasn’t our lucky day. Our flight got delayed by about an hour and a half and it looks like back home the ground personnel is on strike and there’s about a two our wait at the baggage reclaim.
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“Last” day in Tenerife … it was a busy one! Not only did we have two pool and one gym session on the program but I also planned to meet up with Cassandra and her family. Today also marked the day where I didn’t have to do an additional set or some additional stroke work at the end of workout after almost two weeks. It almost felt weird finishing up with the team and just doing the regular workout.
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Wednesday’s are Spa days. But first we had to go through 2 pool and one gym session. The weather is still nice but there’s a pretty chilly breeze coming in from the Atlantic Ocean. Morning workout wasn’t that hard but we did some “warm-up” for the main set of fast 50’s in the afternoon. I’m also starting to think about changing my main stroke to something other than fly … it might just be me but there are way too many fly sets in practice lately.
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Dec-19 Championnat Romand d'hiver
Dec-06 Copa da Natal
Nov-14 Challenge Red-Fish Neuchatel
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