A variation of this practice will run on Tuesday October 6th in the 50 meter pool at UIC. Like last week, we’re working on feeling our T-pace and working at a faster pace. This time, we’re going to be working a pace that will push you up toward your anaerobic…
A group will be getting together to watch the Bears play the Cincinnati Bengals at Hawkeyes (1458 W. Taylor St.) on Sunday October 25th. Kickoff is at noon, so you can head over after the Sunday practices. Have some food and drinks, hang out with your teammates, and marvel at…
I thank Steve Tarpinian and his webinar “Swim Myths” for inspiring and providing some of the information in this post. I get asked a lot by my swimmers is they should swim with paddles to get stronger in the water. I’m not a big fan of this strategy mainly because…
As we insert learning flip turns into practice, we, the coaches, are starting to hear from our triathletes: “I don’t need to learn flip turns. I’m a triathlete. There are no walls in open water.” Many of these same triathletes take pride in the fact that they don’t push off…
If you are blind like me, swimming has always been a little challenging because I couldn’t see the pace clock, other swimmers, the practice on the board. Since I’ve started to do more stuff in open water with my team in the last 10 years, it’s…well…game over out there. The…
In the Monday practice, we’re going to work on some pacing exercises based off the 100 pace derived from our T-30’s or T-20’s last week, or the T-pace. When working with the T-pace, you’ll adjust the pace for the distance of the swim. If you hold a 1:30 pace for…
The results from the T-30 and T-20 swims that we did on Tuesday September 22nd and Wednesday September 23rd are can be pulled from the CBD T-Swim Historical Results file on our website. You can find general background on the set on the Team News page of our website and…
Congratulations to Bernice Ruo, Deanna Abarbanel, and Peter Spevacek for being the top attendees at CBD Masters swim practices over the Summer Season. To show our appreciation, we’re giving each of them a free 25 minute session at the CBD Swim Studio. We’ll have three more winners when the Fall…
This year, we had 5 men and 2 women compete and finish the late summer Ironman races, Ironman Canada (08/30/09), Ironman Louisville (08/30/09), and Ironman Wisconsin (09/13/09). We’ve listed the athletes, their total times, and their overall or age-group places below. IM Canada: Ruth Meade, 1495th place, 13:30:01 …
I get this question a million times: “My goggles leak when I swim. What are the right size goggles for me?” There are a ton of goggles out there in the market of all different shapes and sizes. You want to find a pair that fit into your eye sockets…
