What is the One-Hour Swim? The basic question is how far can you swim in one hour? It’s the first USMS ePostal swim each year, done only during the month of January. It’s the largest stand-alone participation event on the USMS calendar, as more than 2500 swimmers across the nation […]
Yearly Archives: 2015
For the PDF version, follow this link: January 2016 OMS AquaMaster All of the articles in the AquaMaster are also available online here: Aqua Master articles online
January 2016 AquaMaster Available
2 by Marlys Cappaert Circumnavigating Beavers Aquatic Team (CBAT) For the past ten years, I’ve dabbled in swimming holidays. Like on a bicycling or hiking trip, you follow a daily itinerary in an exotic destination. Of course I’d rather swim somewhere than walk, so I was really pleased to find that […]
Greece to Turkey Swims
NW Zone SCM Championship November 21-22, 2015; Federal Way, WA COMA All-Around Challenge SCM Pentathlon and Brute Squad December 5, 2015; Bend, OR 2015 SW Zone and SPMS SCM Championships December 4-6, 2015; La Mirada, CA Link to PDF: December 2015 Records
New Records – December 2015
Download the PDF file here: Team Life – December 2015 Featured this month are: COMA – Central Oregon Masters Aquatics CGM – Columbia Gorge Masters LOM – Lake Oswego Masters
Team Life – December 2015
We made it through another great year and 2016 is here. I promised that we would check in throughout the year, attempting to stay on track for Summer Nationals in August; this should be on everyone’s radar since your Oregon LMSC is hosting the meet at the Mt Hood Aquatic […]
Goals for 2016
A small but motivated group of Oregon swimmers made the trip up to Federal Way for the NW Zone SCM Championships, November 21st & 22nd. There were a few OMS no-shows, but they missed a fun meet with some great swimming. It was also the 25th Birthday for the King […]
OMS Swims Well at Federal Way
I’ve just come across an article in the New Yorker magazine about running, entitled “What We Think About When We Run.” You’ll find it at http://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/what-we-think-about-when-we-run. In the article the author covers a study published earlier this year in the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology by the sports […]
Swim Bits January 2015: What We Think About When We ...
2 Team Club Sport Oregon (TCSO) I started competing as an Oregon Master Swimmer after a few decades away from competitive swimming. My two sons were swimming for Tigard-Tualatin Swim Club, and another parent was interested in setting up a Masters program there. At that point, I wasn’t even aware of […]