Newsletter | December 31, 2023

Upcoming Events in 2024

We have some exciting events to mark on your calendars for the first half of the new year! Not sure which meet is the one for you? Complete our Meet Interest survey so we can help match you with the right one.

New England LMSC Short Course Yards Championship:

• When and Where: 
  
  • March 9: BSI-Wellesley, Wellesley, MA  
  • March 15-16: Blodgett Pool, Harvard University, Boston, MA

AGUA Masters Home Meet:

• When: Saturday, April 6
• Where: Asphalt Green's Upper East Side campus

USMS Spring Nationals:

• When: Thursday, June 20 through Monday, June 24
• Where: IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN

Training Tips

Swim Workout

Please note, these intervals are for short course yards but feel free to adjust as necessary. Refer to the following USMS Pace Chart for interval adjustments.

Warm Up: (Set yards: 800)

• 600 choice
• 4 x 50 kick with 0:10 of rest

Set 1: One round (Set yards: 1400)

• 4 x 100 IM at 1:50
  • Odd strokes - drill
  • Even strokes - kick
• 300 (as 100 IM, then 200 freestyle) at 5:00
• 4 x 100 freestyle at 1:40
• 300 (as 200 IM, then 100 freestyle) at 5:00

Set 2: Three rounds rotating through strokes IMO (Set yards: 1800)

• 8 x 50 (as 2 butterfly, 1 freestyle, 2 butterfly, 1 freestyle, 2 butterfly) at 0:55
• 200 (as 100 butterfly, then 100 backstroke) at 4:00

Questions? Please reach out to Jim Wu at jwu@asphaltgreen.org.