Open Water

Bob Bruce — This is your year to GO PRO! What? I—a mere member of Oregon Masters Swimming—can get paid to swim, like Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky, and most of the other swimmers on our National Team? I have good news for you…YES YOU CAN! Here’s how to GO PRO! Due to a […]

Long Distance Swimming – January 2019

19 Dec, 2018 in Announcements / Aqua Master Online / Coaching / Events / Long Distance / Long Distance / Open Water / Planning / Training by Bob Bruce

Long Distance Swimming — The 2018 Oregon Open Water Preview The coming of spring reminds us that summer is not far away, and with it the 2018 Oregon open water season. You can find the schedule, event information, and entry forms for all Oregon events and information about the 2018 Oregon Open Water Series […]

Long Distance Swimming – May 2018

19 Apr, 2018 in Announcements / Aqua Master Online / Events / Long Distance / Open Water / Open Water / Planning / Training by Bob Bruce

Long Distance Swimming — by Coach Bob Bruce We enjoyed a mix of three sanctioned and two unsanctioned (let’s call them “affiliated”) venues this year. But we also had another sanctioned event cancelled this year due to lack of sufficient entry. Let’s recognize our season achievements and highlights: We hosted 16 swims at 5 […]

Long Distance Swimming: October 2016

21 Sep, 2016 in Aqua Master Online / Events / Long Distance / Open Water / Planning / Results / Results Summary / Training by Bob Bruce

An 80+ plus Catalina Relay August 19-20, 2015 by Dave Radcliff On August 19-20, 6 men and one alternate became the oldest Relay to ever successfully swim across the 22 miles of the Catalina Channel, between the Island of Catalina and the Palos Verde Peninsula in California. Dave Radcliff, an […]

The Old Men and the Sea

26 Sep, 2015 in Aqua Master Online / Featured / Open Water / Relays by OMS Webmaster

A 10K in the water is swimming’s version of a runner’s marathon. It takes about the same time to swim a 10K as to run a marathon; from a little less than two hours for male swimmers in the Olympics to 3 hours and more for mere mortals.. The biggest […]

Swim Bits

29 Jul, 2015 in Aqua Master Online / Long Distance / Open Water / Swim Bits / Training by Ralph Mohr