Photo from yesterday's CHOGM swim

Dear Swimmers

Thanks for coming down to Claremont Pool yesterday and supporting the squad session on a Public Holiday. For those of you present, here is the photo Adam took at the session - everyone's looking great!

http://www.feelforthewater.com/2011/10/50000-of-you-wow.html

See you on pool deck this afternoon (Saturday 29th) at 1pm if you can make it?

Cheers

Paul

OWS TRAINING WITH SHELLEY TAYLOR-SMITH

OWS TRAINING WITH SHELLEY TAYLOR-SMITH

ELIMINATE YOUR FEARS, BUILD CONFIDENCE AND IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS FOR UPCOMING TRIATHLON SEASON!!!!

  

OPTION ONE: 3 sessions for ironmen and accomplished triathletes

OWS Mastery Squad in Perth, Western Australia to help you prepare for the Busselton Ironman December for 2011 for accomplished to professional levels.

                                                                    

DATES:  Sunday 23^rd & 30^th October and 20^th November 2011
VENUE: Sorrento SLSC, West Coast Highway, Sorrento
TIME: 8am start (ready on beach with wet suit on) & 9am finish

INVESTMENT: $36 SwimSmooth Members [click here to book now...]

OPTION TWO: OpenWaterTUESDAY Weekly Sesh with STS!

Welcome to the official head-start of the weekly Tuesday morning ocean swims to get in a skill-sharpening "dip" before your triathlon and/or OWS comp.

Goal: To help you make sense of open water swimming and sharpen your skills over the next several months. We'll hit this on Tuesday 8^th November as the launch, then pick-up regular weekly Tuesday mornings.

*** This is not an absolute beginner workout. You must be able to swim 1km without stopping; approximately 2:30/100m speed; about 30min km speed or faster; 1-hour for a 70.3 swim; or
under 2 hours for an Ironman swim. Wetsuits strongly recommended.

DATES: 7 weeks beginning Tuesday 8^th November – Tuesday 20^th December 2011* (2012 season begins Tuesday 6^th January 2012)
VENUE: Meet at Swan River, Matilda Bay, Carpark next to UWA Boatshed, Crawley
TIME: 6am in car park ready with wet suit at waist level

INVESTMENT: $99 SwimSmooth Members [click here to book now...]

For all your enquiries head to http://www.OpenWaterSwimmingMastery.com   or  Email Head Coach Shelley directly at headcoach@OpenWaterSwimmingMastery.com or call 0414 594 245

* please let Paul know by replying to this email if you plan to attend Shelley's Tuesday 6am OWS AND have a spot booked in our Tuesday 5.30am or 6.30am Claremont Pool squad session as I will then allocate your spot to someone else. Thanks.

Friday 28th October Squad List

Dear Swimmers

As mentioned last Friday, this Friday (28th October) sees a Public Holiday taking place for CHOGM. As such the Claremont Pool will only be opening from 7am to 6pm. This has reduced our squad availability to 5 lanes from 7-8am and 3 lanes from 9.30am to 10.30am. 

Last week I requested that if you sought to attend the one-off Friday 7am Fresh 'n' Fruity session that you be one of the first 40 people to email me back to highlight your interest. Incredibly these 40 spots were filled in less than 20 minutes. This was the fairest way I could see of doing this without over-crowding the lanes. I do apologise sincerely if you missed out, but here is the list with swimmer's names allocated per lane and in the order I anticipate you performing the main set:

http://swimsmooth.com/pauls_images/CHOGM_List_7am.pdf

If anyone cannot attend, please let me know asap so that I can offer your place to one of the reserve list swimmers.

If you have missed out and seek to attend the 9.30am session instead as a bit of a one-off (i.e. you don't normally attend that session) please email me with your interest and we'll aim to get you in for that one instead. The 7am session will be a Fresh 'n' Fruity Session and the 9.30am session will feature a few more drills and steady swimming for your reference.

I will have an additional coach with me for the 7am session and just to inform you that I'll be shooting off almost immediately thereafter for an 8.10am 1-2-1 session...otherwise I'd loved to have joined you guys for a relaxing coffee as some of you have suggested. Sorry.

Cheers

Paul

Public Holiday next Friday 28th October

Dear Swimmers

Hopefully you are aware (I wasn't!) that next Friday 28th October is a public holiday for the Queen's visit to Perth.

Because of this the Claremont Pool will not be opening until 7am next Friday.

This is a bit of a shame as given attendance over the last few Fridays it appears that everyone is getting into their Fresh 'n Fruity sessions!

However, with the kind assistance of Claremont Pool and not to let you down, we have negotiated a special 7-8am AND a 9.30 to 10.30am squad session at Claremont Pool.

The earlier session will feature the use of 5 lanes (!!) and as such I would like to invite the first 40 people to reply to this email to attend that session to come on down for a great little set. I'll get an additional coach in to assist.

Ordinarily we'd do a beach swim on a public holiday but given last week's tragic news I'm not keen on running a session back down at Cottesloe just yet!!

Hope that all makes sense and that you're still able to come down.

Cheers

Paul

Thank you and Saturday

Dear Swimmers

Just a quick note to thank you all for your beautiful congratulatory email messages yesterday following the birth of little Isla Rose. I haven't had chance to reply to everyone (as there have been a huge number of lovely emails) but we have read all your messages and we are very grateful of your support.

As per last week, there still won't be any structured open water swim sessions this weekend (likely not again until the middle to end of November), though we will still be on at 1pm at the Claremont Pool for a wholly enjoyable open water skills session. There's been a great turn-out for this for the last few weeks and I'd encourage you to pop along if you can as this particular session really thrives on numbers for better facilitation and breadth of ability within the drafting exercises in particular.

Thanks and have a great end to your week. See some of you early tomorrow morning for the Friday Fresh & Fruity session.

Cheers

Paul

It's a girl!

Dear Swimmers

I'm very proud to be able to announce the birth of our new daughter "Isla Rose" today, Wednesday 19th October at 8.46am, weighing in at 7lbs9oz.

Michelle and Isla (pronounced "i-la") are both doing great and I'm the proudest and happiest Dad on the planet right now!

Isla's full name is Isla Rose Jacqueline Newsome. The "Rose" is after my grandmother and best friend who sadly past away in 2003 just after I first moved over to Perth - she would have been so proud of little Isla Rose; and "Jacqueline" is after Michelle's mother (of the same name) who is currently with us over from Canada and looking after Jackson and myself very nicely indeed (bang goes the diet!).

A quick thanks to Francene for covering my sessions for me this morning. I managed to get the 5.30am guys set off, but had to be away early on to get Mish to the hospital by 6.30am. So please don't blame Francene for the nasty little set this morning!

Despite getting several job offers to be a male nurse at the Osborne Park hospital (see photo below), I will see you all back on the pool deck on Friday morning, 5.30am sharp! ;-)

See you then!

Paul

Interesting reads...

Dear Swimmers

Hope you are all well. Bit scary with all the going's on this week down at Cottesloe hey? Really feeling for the poor guy's family right now.

I've attached links for two interesting reads for you this week as part of your Rottnest Channel swim preparation. The first is from an article written by myself on the physical preparation required for a successful channel swim (i.e. the English Channel or Rottnest) and the second is one from Shelley Taylor-Smith about the mental preparations required for such an event. Both feature in this month's edition of http://www.h2openmagazine.com/ which I can highly recommend as a great resource and fun read as an open water swimmer. I hope you find them useful.

http://www.swimsmooth.com/pauls_images/ec.pdf

http://www.swimsmooth.com/pauls_images/shelley.pdf

Cheers

Paul