To help you track your swimming yardage during the Holiday Fitness Challenge, we suggest using the US Masters Swimming Fitness Log, or FLOG. This program can track for multiple types of workouts and fitness memberships. And it’s FREE with your USMS membership. Here are the steps you can follow to…
As the fund-raising part of the Holiday Fitness Challenge, I would like Chicago Blue Dolphins to raise money for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. With the economy in the state that it’s in, stopping hunger over the holidays sounds like a pretty good thing for us to do for our…
And speaking of competitions… The Kishwaukee YMCA in DeKalb, site of the 2008 ILMSA State Meet, won the bid again to host the 2010 State Meet. The meet will take place on April 23-25, 2010 (start getting your entry cards ready now!). There was a big push to get the…
In keeping with the discussion on the technical swim suits, here’s an article from the November 3rd “Wall Street Journal,” Some Aging Competitors Call High-Tech Swimsuits Dirty Pool. It kind of rehashes a lot of the discussion that we’ve already heard over the past year or so, but it’s a…
As I was digging myself out of an email blizzard after being gone for a couple of weeks, I found this message from Rules Committee Chair, Kathy Casey on the USMS policy on swimming suits. If you own a racing suit, take a gander at the note below. You can…
