Best of luck to the following individuals who will be representing Westport/Weston Family Y at YMCA Masters National Championship in Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Jake Gulick, Laura Burke, Christine DePierro, William Geoghegan, Sheila Stolarski, Martha Erdman, John Schwarten, and Mike Laux. You could check out how they are doing by visiting the Hy-Tek Real Time [...]

Three new events have been added to the “Upcoming Events” section of the website.

09.01.2007 - Quassy Sailing Club Open Water Swim Festival
09.09.2007 - Westport Kiwanis Minuteman Triathlon
09.22.2007 - Pattaconk Plunge

February schedule for Saturday workouts is as follows:
Feb. 17th: 11am-12:30pm
Feb. 24th: 11am-12:30pm
Looks like for the month of March we’ll be able to do 10am-12pm the entire month.

The XI FINA World Masters Championships on-line Meet entry system is
now available. You can now register for all the events online at http://www.2006finamasters.org, then click on the “OnLine Entries” button on the right side.
If you are one of the first 1000 entrants, you will receive a FINA
Logo’d blue nylon bag (the bag also has the [...]

Greetings fellow Chlorine heads! TGIF! Remember to turn your clocks Ahead this weekend!
Here are some FYIs for y’all:
1) Sat AM workout is 10am-12pm. Stay tuned as I think we have 2 more weekends @this time.. so look for my email next week.
2) Mike needs your entry for Y Nat’s which [...]

The financial report on the Ground Hog Meet has been emailed to all members. On the positive side we did well and made the most we have ever made at this meet. On the other side we will probably have to spend most of it for relay entries at Y nationals. There are 8 [...]

On behalf of the team, I would like to personally thank the following individuals for volunteering and helping to make the Ground Hog Meet such a success: Y coaches Bill and Marta for setting us set up and keeping us running till the end; Kim for entering all the pre meet entries and Marta for [...]

The Westerly YMCA Masters Program Swimmers will host a Masters Swim Meet on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at the Fuller 25 yard Pool, Westerly-Pawcatuck YMCA, Westerly, RI. Warm-up at 8:30 AM. Meet starts 9 AM. Electronic timing. Underwater video service also available in adjacent Buckley Pool. Meet director is [...]

For those of you who also enjoy running/walking/biking you might find this website handy. It allows you to calculate distances traveled by using a neat tool built on top of Google Maps.
http://www.sueandpaul.com/gmapPedometer/

For those of you who are interested in purchasing a triathlon wetsuit for swimming in the open water I’ve gathered a few links while researching them that I wanted to share. Please leave a comment if you have any recommendations as well.

Selecting the right wetsuit
Buying a Triathlon Wetsuit for the Swim Leg of a Triathlon
Quintana [...]