2015 Oregon Open Water Series is complete! Final standings for the Oregon Open Water Series can be found here: 2015 Final Open Water Series Standings SUMMARY 2015 Final Open Water Series Standings See you in a lake next year!
Daily Archives: August 26, 2015

Tribute to Milton Marks Milton “Mickey” Marks, age 85, passed away peacefully at home, with his family around him. It was August 3, 2015, and the cause of death was complications following prostate cancer. Mickey was born in Stamford, Connecticut, but grew up in New York City. He was the […]
Tribute to Milton Marks
Fit to Swim Fail to Succeed By Coach Aubree Gustafson You are ready. You have prepared yourself for your event to the best of your ability; poured blood, sweat and tears into training; missed out on time with friends and family to bike for an additional hour or swim one […]
Fail to Succeed
Shake and Swim with ‘Bake’ Around the Barrel in Freestyle by Dennis Baker Many good swim coaches will tell you as you pull down underwater in your Freestyle to pull “around the barrel”. I agree this is a great visualization for the correct underwater recovery. Let’s look at some do’s […]
Around the Barrel in Freestyle

Trans Tahoe Relay Swim July 18, 2015 By Arlene Delmage with rendering by Jill Marie Asch When my good buddy Graham Johnston called me to ask if I would participate in the Trans-Tahoe relay with him, who was I to say no? The Trans-Tahoe relay is a notorious open water […]
Trans Tahoe Relay Swim

Swimmer Spotlight Colette Crabbe; age 58 Swim instructor and coach Workout group: Oregon Reign Masters I grew up in Belgium and my first experience with swimming, or at least with water, was not a good one. On a hot summer day in a small private backyard pool, I almost drowned. […]