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JUNE 2024 43 SWIMMING & TRIATHLON continued from 41 As such, working with an instructor who understands swimming strokes and can provide feedback in-person or by video, is invaluable. For people who grew up with almost no swimming experience, learning to swim as an adult can be formidable. While it’s never too late to learn, the encouragement of an experienced swimming teacher can make all the difference. Depending upon your goals in swimming, there is a subset of skills specific to open water, particularly for those interested in competing in any form at any level or entering any kind of large group swim event. Skills that need to be learned and practiced include sighting, so that you swim a straight line; turning around the buoys efficiently on a marked course; and breathing bilaterally for a better view of the buoys or the shore. Drafting another swimmer as a means of reducing your energy output on a swim and gaining comfort with swimming in a pack are also valuable. And of course, there’s practicing the start. Will the start of any given event be by running from the shore and diving into the water, treading in deep water until the air horn sounds, or jumping off a pier, dock, or boat? Given that there’s no wall to be swimming towards every 25 yards, what about pacing during an open water swim event, and practicing the important skill of rolling from freestyle to elementary backstroke to rest, control anxiety, and manage heartrate? I think you really get hooked on the joy of open water training and competing when you have fun and put yourself to the test in an event during our precious summer months. If you’re a triathlete, event calendars are a great way to find races so ■ GREAT SETTING AT LAWSON'S LAKE COUNTY PARK WHERE BETHLEHEM TRI CLUB SWIMS EVERY THURSDAY. BETHANY KIERNAN see the Calendar in Adirondack Sports print or online: adksports.com. And visit USA Triathlon: usatriathlon.org. Not interested in biking or running? Plenty of cyclists and runners would love to have a competent swimmer to form a relay team. Popular triathlons in our region that welcome individuals and teams include Wilson Endurance Sports triathlons in Ticonderoga, Stissing, Litchfield Hills, Delta Lake, and CassadagaMan; Alpha Win’s triathlons in the Hudson Valley, Lake George, and Saugerties; Capital District Triathlon Club’s Crystal ■ SWIMMERS NAVIGATING THE TURNAROUND BUOY AT BETSY OWENS/TERRY LAUGHLIN MEMORIAL SWIMS IN MIRROR LAKE. Lake Triathlon; Vermont Sun Triathlon Series, and the High Peaks Cyclery Mini- Tri Series. Perhaps your greater interest is in open water swimming competitions? In our area, Greenleaf Racing offers the “Virtual 32-Mile Marathon Swim” for individuals and teams, and the Lake George 2.5K/5K/10K open water swim races in Hague in August. Greenleaf Racing also partners with Adirondack Masters Swimming (AD-LMSC) to offer the Betsy Owens/Terry Laughlin Memorial Swim Races in Mirror Lake every August, races sanctioned by United States Masters Swimming. The US Masters Swimming calendar of events is a great resource for finding sanctioned open water races across the entire country and for identifying open water swimming events for competition or for recreation where the purpose is raising funds for an important cause, such as the Against the Tide Swims sponsored by the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition, and the Swim Across America–Rhode Island to Benefit the Women and Infants Hospital: usms.org. Rays’s Notebook is another awesome resource for finding competitive open water swim races and open water swim events for recreation and to raise funds for important causes: raysnotebook.info/ows. And for the heartiest among us, how about an open water swimming vacation that takes you to stunning places around the globe and makes all arrangements for travel and accommodations, with well-organized daily swimming opportunities? I have swimming friends who have traveled with Swim Trek and have raved about swimming in the Galapagos Islands, Nevis and St. Kitts, Croatia, Sardinia, the Bahamas, and Greece: swimtrek.com. Hey, why not??!! Whatever level of swimmer you are, and whatever trajectory you may be on with your swimming, stay after it and keep at it! Swimming provides tremendous cardiovascular benefits, is a full body workout, is easier on the joints than some other forms of exercise and can provide improvements to mental and emotional health. As many will attest, “You’re only one swim away from a better mood!” These benefits are compounded when swimming outdoors in a clean, beautiful lake or river in magnificent Upstate New York! Interested in learning, fine tuning, and practicing your skills? Join us for an Open Water Swimming Clinic on Sunday, June 30 from 2-3:30pm at the Glens Falls Family YMCA. Cosponsored by the Glens Falls Family YMCA and Adirondack Masters Swimming. Register in advance: glensfallsymca.org. Kathy Meany (kmeany2@verizon. net) is vice-president and sanctions chairperson of Adirondack Masters Swimming and a representative on the board of the Bethlehem Triathlon Club. She is a retired teacher, principal, and school district superintendent who is an avid swimmer, cyclist, triathlete, and pickleball and tennis player.
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