2016 Speedo USMS 1-Hour ePostal National Championship

Please check out the latest information on our Facebook page. If you don't have Facebook, the content is here: Welcome to the 2016 Speedo USMS One-Hour ePostal Swim event! This event is your opportunity to see how far you can swim in an hour. Besides giving you a great reason to tune up your distance swimming and get you in great shape for the upcoming swim season, we are looking to run an event that will be easy on the environment, hopefully set a record of its own and give back to the sport that we all love by making a donation to the USMS Swimming Saves Lives Foundation. How are we going to do all of this? With your support, of course! Swim the event and encourage your teammates to do it too. Check back here frequently for event updates. Here’s the link to the event information form. It gives you all that you need to know to participate: www.clubassistant.com/.../meet_information.cfm… Please be sure to register for USMS for the 2016 season before you do the swim. There are all kinds of incentives to do so early…think discounts on all the stuff you want for the coming swim season from a bunch of vendors who support USMS. In case you haven’t registered, here’s the link to USMS registration: www.usms.org/.../register.php What’s this about setting a record? We are hoping to log more miles than ever before for this event. So if you are thinking, “How am I going to go farther than last year when I was younger and faster?” We’ve got some training tips coming from coach Marie that will help you with that. And if you get your friends to swim too, we could get there just by sheer numbers of entrants. Easy on the environment? Yes, way back before we were using computers for everything, this event was very paper and snail mail-dependent. People put their split sheets into an envelope and mailed them in for tabulation. That’s a bunch of mail trucks full of deliveries and who knows how many trees worth of paper. Then results were mailed out; that took more trucks and trees full of paper. Medals were dutifully mailed to deserving recipients. More mail truck trips. You get the idea. Skip ahead to 2016. Yes, results and entries have been electronic for a few years, but we are taking this a step further. Those awards that are weighing down interstate commerce can now be obtained electronically too! If you win an award, you can choose to have us send you a photo of it instead of sending you one in the mail AND we will donate $1 to the USMS Swimming Saves Lives Foundation to recognize your achievement! If you still want to receive a medal, we will do that for you. Jim, our event co-director, has agreed to take it to post office in his Prius. Note that electronic awards will be delivered well before the snail mail version. That’s all for now. So get your carpool together and head off to your local pool to get in some training. On her way off of the deck Coach Marie offered a helpful training tip. Work your walls! A good streamlined push-off can get you a couple of extra feet off every wall. Over an hour that’s going to get you some serious added distance. Remember, we have a record to break.

Please check out the latest information on our Facebook page. If you don't have Facebook, the content is here: Welcome to the 2016 Speedo USMS One-Hour ePostal Swim event! This event is your opportunity to see how far you can swim in an hour. Besides giving you a great reason to tune up your distance swimming and get you in great shape for the upcoming swim season, we are looking to run an event that will be easy on the environment, hopefully set a record of its own and give back to the sport that we all love by making a donation to the USMS Swimming Saves Lives Foundation. How are we going to do all of this? With your support, of course! Swim the event and encourage your teammates to do it too. Check back here frequently for event updates. Here’s the link to the event information form. It gives you all that you need to know to participate: www.clubassistant.com/.../meet_information.cfm… Please be sure to register for USMS for the 2016 season before you do the swim. There are all kinds of incentives to do so early…think discounts on all the stuff you want for the coming swim season from a bunch of vendors who support USMS. In case you haven’t registered, here’s the link to USMS registration: www.usms.org/.../register.php What’s this about setting a record? We are hoping to log more miles than ever before for this event. So if you are thinking, “How am I going to go farther than last year when I was younger and faster?” We’ve got some training tips coming from coach Marie that will help you with that. And if you get your friends to swim too, we could get there just by sheer numbers of entrants. Easy on the environment? Yes, way back before we were using computers for everything, this event was very paper and snail mail-dependent. People put their split sheets into an envelope and mailed them in for tabulation. That’s a bunch of mail trucks full of deliveries and who knows how many trees worth of paper. Then results were mailed out; that took more trucks and trees full of paper. Medals were dutifully mailed to deserving recipients. More mail truck trips. You get the idea. Skip ahead to 2016. Yes, results and entries have been electronic for a few years, but we are taking this a step further. Those awards that are weighing down interstate commerce can now be obtained electronically too! If you win an award, you can choose to have us send you a photo of it instead of sending you one in the mail AND we will donate $1 to the USMS Swimming Saves Lives Foundation to recognize your achievement! If you still want to receive a medal, we will do that for you. Jim, our event co-director, has agreed to take it to post office in his Prius. Note that electronic awards will be delivered well before the snail mail version. That’s all for now. So get your carpool together and head off to your local pool to get in some training. On her way off of the deck Coach Marie offered a helpful training tip. Work your walls! A good streamlined push-off can get you a couple of extra feet off every wall. Over an hour that’s going to get you some serious added distance. Remember, we have a record to break.