Wayland Community Pool Masters Swim

08/07/2021

WOW we love our triathletes when they represent like they did today at AG Nat Champs In Milwaukee! We love you anyway, but especially today😉
Ginger Ellsworth Reiner 3rd woman overall and 1st in her AG, Eric Eric Furfine had a great day in his AG, Jessica Scheller Holmes 1st in her AG, Julia Rhinesmith 3rd fastest Female swim of the DAY and Becky Paige 2nd in her AG- CONGRATS!🔥🔥🔥👊👊👊🎉🎉🎉
Also congrats to Boston Light Swim organizer Elaine Kornbau Howley for getting a really great weather day out there and putting on an excellent event- Jennifer Downing and Laurie Craigen were 1st and 3rd overall, and while we can not take much credit for their swim prowess we congratulate them anyway- Great job out there! also Eric Nilsson 2nd (to an Olympian by 2 seconds, just saying) in the WildFish Swim In Salem🤩

06/13/2021

So much fun to "follow" our swimmers as they take on the World! Landshark Swim Rachel Saks Aronis 1st place, Harvest Tri Olympic Ginger Ellsworth Reiner 1st woman, Eric Furfine 1st in his AG. Harvest Sprint Jessica Scheller Holmes 2nd woman. Hyannis Sprint Ali Hall first woman, Hyannis Olympic Peter Biro 5th in AG, Carlos Solorzano 5th in AG (1st in the swim), Breno Melo 1st in his Division SWIM If I missed you let me know what you did!!🏊‍♀️🏊🏊‍♀️🏊🏊‍♀️🏊💙🤩 add: Jen Scalise-Marinofsky 2nd at Eagleman!!

05/18/2021

Fridays. 9am. Starting June 4. Advance signup required. Sunscreen recommended.

02/02/2021

Some people can breathe every stroke and not only "get away with it," but they can enjoy increased oxygen and even swim quite fast!
If the angle of your hips dictates the height of your elbow during the recovery, you are probably supporting those amazing shoulder joints with your core and your back muscles- yay! Practice alternate breathing and different patterns so you know how to move though the water better and with equal power from both hips. You might never have the flexibility of Eric N but you could swim with some highly coveted "easy speed" (and with fewer shoulder issues). Thanks Breno Melo your balance has improved since this video was shot!

09/07/2020

Good News! SATURDAYS are BACK...
6:45-8am @ Sat 9/12
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09/03/2020

We have 2 swims on Labor Day!
6-7:15 AND 7:30-8:45am
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08/29/2020

Hi Everyone- things have been going very smoothly with one swimmer per lane at WCP, but we are excited to announce that we are moving to 2 swimmers per lane as of this Monday 8/31!

Here is a review of the process for those who have not yet reserved a spot at a workout.
1. ENROLL in the system. You can not sign up for anything unless the system knows who you are .
https://tms.ezfacility.com/OnlineRegistrations/Register.aspx?CompanyID=1809&GroupID=2755215

2. once you are in the system you can choose a practice and sign up for a spot here: https://wcp.ezfacility.com/Sessions

**Caution! If you skip Step 1 and go straight to Step 2 you will NOT be able to sign up for a spot.
**If you opt out of email notifications in Preferences you will NOT receive any emails from the system which give you helpful reminders of your reservations and/or let you know that you are off the waitlist.

For those of you who wonder how the 2 person-per-lane thing will play out:
*Each bench at the deep end will be marked in half with tape. Each swimmer in a lane has half the bench on which to place their things.
*We will use the shallow end as our home base, so after leaving your stuff and your mask on the bench, you will swim down to the other end (or I will just make the warmup an odd number so it ends at the shallow end!)After the workout you'll exit the pool at the deep end so you are near your masks.
*For the main set, etc. one swimmer will stand at the wall as usual, and the other swimmer will stand at the flags.
*On "go" both swimmers leave simultaneously- the person at the flags goes to the wall and turns, the wall person simply pushes off per usual, and they are CIRCLE SWIMMING.
*We will be circle swimming unless a lane has 2 people of mismatched pace, in which case the swimmers can decide in to SPLIT the lane. Please see my helpful diagram 😀 if you need help with a visual

WCP lane configuration MASTERS starting 8/31 Shallow end 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 8 lanes… 16 swimmers X @ WALL v v v ^ ^ ^ X @ FLAGS X v v v v v ^ ^ ^ X X v v v v v ^ ^ ^ X ...

08/24/2020

You know how you've been fervently wishing for MORE chances to swim?
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16 slots/practice starts MONDAY 8/31!

08/16/2020

Here is a little photo-essay titled either: “We Don’t Use Kickboards” OR “Elite Swimmers MIGHT Be Able to Use a Kickboard Relatively Productively- But You Probably Can’t.”