Hello - I'm new to this board. I recently took up swimming again (did it a lot (competitively) in my much, much younger days), and have dabbled here and there for the past 6 years or so, but I'm now doing more regular workouts at a local indoor pool. I started because I'm a runner currently off land with a stress fracture, so while doing pool running I noticed the masters workouts going on and decided to join in for the added crosstraining.
It turns out that this coach is great. The workouts generally have 3 to 8 people, and being new, I'm always in Lane 1 getting constant input on my stroke, which has already changed. He really pushes us pretty hard, doing all strokes, lots of drills and intervals - definitely good for lactate threshold workouts, endurance, and V02 max (things I relate to in running).
I was wondering, if you care to share, what you pay for masters workouts, and what you get for that (how many days per week, additional pool time at no extra cost, etc.).
And, a couple more questions if you don't mind: Any benefits to joining USMS if you are not planning on doing swim meets? (I'm planning on doing a triathlon here and there, hence the swimming.)
And, kickboards: cheap foam okay, or any difference in what's out there?
Thanks for any input!!
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Originally posted by aquageek
I suggest you go to Tallahassee, Chapel Hill or Athens in early April before you make such brash statements. Even my PSU friends say it doesn't hold a candle to some of the fairer college towns in the South, where the talent is vastly superior.
I was just about to suggest the same thing Geek! I was going to grad school at UGA when REM and all the other Athens band were playing the clubs and just about to make it big. Athens is so cool they even made a movie about it, called what else but "Athens."
I'd move back to Athens in a heartbeat if I could find a job there that paid as good and had working conditions as nice as the one here.
Lainey
Originally posted by aquageek
I suggest you go to Tallahassee, Chapel Hill or Athens in early April before you make such brash statements. Even my PSU friends say it doesn't hold a candle to some of the fairer college towns in the South, where the talent is vastly superior.
I was just about to suggest the same thing Geek! I was going to grad school at UGA when REM and all the other Athens band were playing the clubs and just about to make it big. Athens is so cool they even made a movie about it, called what else but "Athens."
I'd move back to Athens in a heartbeat if I could find a job there that paid as good and had working conditions as nice as the one here.
Lainey
