I'm wondering if anyone has ever hired a coach specifically for open water, and if so, how you went about doing it.
I have two great Masters coaches, but neither of them have open water experience. I think that I could benefit from someone who could help me develop a training program, incorporating my masters training, for specific distances and races. Right now, it's mostly a matter of me doing overdistance training, getting nervous about not having done enough, and then ending up doing fine and wondering what I was so nervous about. Based on having had a triathlon coach for several years, when I was doing that intensively, I think there might be just a little more science to it than that.
I'd love recommendations.
Thanks!
Sydne
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I have coached the USA National Swim Team (open water) since 2001 (at the 2001 Fukuoka FINA World Swimming Championships, 2003 Barcelona FINA World Swimming Championships, 2004 World Open Water Swimming Championships in Dubai, 2005 Montreal World Swimming Championships, 2007 Melbourne World Swimming Championships, as well as coached at the 2006 and 2007 USA National Open Water Select Camps and on several other occasions around the world and via email or teleconference (e.g., 2006 American Swimming Coaches Association World Clinic, Lake Biwa Japan Open Water Clinics, Waikiki Roughwater Swim Clinics). I have escorted and coaches swimmers across the Catalina Channel, English Channel and around Manhattan Island races. There are a variety of drills you can do in any pool and open body of water that may be interesting and beneficial to beginner, intermediate and advanced swimmers alike. You can see some of those open water training drills inside my www.10Kswim.com website, under More Details > What are some good workouts? (animation format). Please enjoy.
I have coached the USA National Swim Team (open water) since 2001 (at the 2001 Fukuoka FINA World Swimming Championships, 2003 Barcelona FINA World Swimming Championships, 2004 World Open Water Swimming Championships in Dubai, 2005 Montreal World Swimming Championships, 2007 Melbourne World Swimming Championships, as well as coached at the 2006 and 2007 USA National Open Water Select Camps and on several other occasions around the world and via email or teleconference (e.g., 2006 American Swimming Coaches Association World Clinic, Lake Biwa Japan Open Water Clinics, Waikiki Roughwater Swim Clinics). I have escorted and coaches swimmers across the Catalina Channel, English Channel and around Manhattan Island races. There are a variety of drills you can do in any pool and open body of water that may be interesting and beneficial to beginner, intermediate and advanced swimmers alike. You can see some of those open water training drills inside my www.10Kswim.com website, under More Details > What are some good workouts? (animation format). Please enjoy.
