Why I Need to Swim Investor Esther Dyson finds peace of mind in the pool I’m always looking for a pool, because I travel about 250 days a year. I learned how to swim when I was 4. In college I swam every day for an hour; now I do […]
Daily Archives: July 29, 2015
Swimmer Spotlight Name/Age: Dave Wash/54 Workout Group: COMA; swims on the southern Oregon coast Although swimming for COMA, Dave swims on the southern Oregon coast I work for the U.S. Department of the Interior as an outdoor recreation program manager. The work I do for the Bureau of Land Management […]
Swimmer Spotlight – Dave Wash
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
Jackpot 7 – COMPLETE! Michelle Macy Blog* Tualatin Hills Barracudas December 31, 2013 As Christmas week is about unwrapping and new experiences, I was wrapping up a 7 week personal challenge of new experiences. I didn’t think that this Jackpot Challenge was going to be as hard as it was, […]
Jackpot 7 – COMPLETE!
Fit to Swim 2016 LCM Nationals – One year out. By Coach Aubree Gustafson Hey all you OMS athletes! We are officially one year away from hosting and competing in the 2016 USMS Long Course Meter National Championships held at Mt Hood Aquatic Center, August 17th-21st, 2016. It’s never too […]
2016 LCM Nationals – One year out
Those Crazy Bridge Swimmers! by Charlie Helm July, 2015 Sunday, July 12th, I decided to go check out the start of the annual 11-mile Portland Bridge Swim to see what these crazy swimmers and their kayak escorts looked like. Unexpectedly waking up at 5:45am that morning made my choice to […]
Those Crazy Bridge Swimmers!
Be Careful of Hypoxic Breathing By Coach Dennis Baker When I was young we did a lot of breath control sets, or hypoxic breathing sets. Usually we were sprinting and not breathing very much at all. This type of training in repetition can lead to shallow water blackout which is […]