Asphalt Green's Annual Facility and Pool Maintenance
From August 20 through September 4, we will be performing annual maintenance on various parts of our Upper East Side and Battery Park City campuses. During this time, our pools will be closed. Be sure to take a look at our blog all about fun things to do outside of the pool!
Thank you for your patience while we give our facilities a little care and attention. We're looking forward to being back in full swing on September 5!
Join coach Nate on Saturday, August 5 for our continuing series of 2023 summertime open-water swims! Whether this is your first time or you’re a seasoned open-water swimmer, this is a great way to test out the waters (pun intended). Please see the details below.
When: Saturday, August 5, 2023
Meet at 9:45am
Swim at 10am
Meeting location:
Brighton Beach (covered area across the boardwalk from Tatiana Grill)
We wanted to shine the spotlight on Fleur Sohtz, a member of the AGUA Masters Swim Team at our Upper East Side campus who has achieved the extraordinary. Fleur has successfully completed a solo crossing of the Catalina Channel, widely recognized as one of the most grueling open-water marathon swims in the world!
Let’s all celebrate these four hardworking Masters Team swimmers!
We’re thrilled to share the happy news that four women from Asphalt Green raced in IRONMAN™ Lake Placid on Sunday, and they are all qualified for the IRONMAN™ World Championship in October!
Pictured from left to right just after they earned their slots at Kona: Jackie Fasano, Shelley Gao, Tara McWilliams, and Colette Vogell.
Training Tips
If you have any swim or dryland workouts you'd like to share, we’d love to highlight them! Submit your workouts to Coach Jim at jwu@asphaltgreen.org.
Swim Workout
Please note these intervals are for short course yards but feel free to adjust as necessary.
Warm Up: (Set yards: 1000)
400 swim
300 pull
200 IM drill
100 kick
Set 1 (Two rounds; Set yards: 1200)
4x50 kick (descend at 1-4) at 1:00
4x25 swim (15 yards underwater off the wall) at 0:30
4x75 swim (build by 25; focus on walls) at 1:10
Set 2: (Two rounds; Set yards: 1500)
300 pull negative split at 4:30
150 swim (build by 50) at 2:15
5x50 swim (hold at 200 pace) at 0:45
1x50 swim (easy) at 1:15
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