In early February Swim Ireland ran a Munster Masters Freestyle Clinic. Breda Mcnamara, Mairead Coughlan & Andrea Newport attended the clinic which took place in UL. The clinic comprised of a morning of classroom sessions with the afternoon focus on the pool. The clinic looked at Core & Posture for Masters Swimmers. The quality of the 2 presenters was excellent, Catherine Hanratty from Lurgan & Jesus Perez NAC.   Catherine’s focus was mainly on posture in everyday life at home at work etc.. We had a great presentation of everyday bad habits and then did a practical session on some [&hellip

So you will have had plenty of time to let the body rejuvenate after the “exertion” in Limerick. The Tralee event is always a great day out. Sometimes the day runs into a very late night but don’t let that put you off – you can always sleep on the bus home! The gala offers a great range of Short Course events and with a 10 a.m. start you can still get a bit of a snooze. See http://www.kingdomswimmingclub.ie/MastersInformation.html for more information. Please send your entries to Paddy on  healy.ptk@gmail.com

Some devout swimmers took to the road to Cork in the middle of February to test the gala waters of the Douglas pool. Congratulations to Colm Carty, Gerard Corry, John Dempsey, Paul Kearney Snr  & John Ryan who attended the Sundays Well Gala. Speaking to one participant “he” gave the following report “I got a warning from Coach Dempsey over being tardy on my dive start off the blocks.  Too much chatting to those around me instead of visualizing my swim” he said!!  The Coach was right. But the chat up lines were good. Coach Dempsey also refused to stop [&hellip

In our third article we now move on to Endurance 3, i.e. Aerobic Capacity. Swims are hard with rest from 1 minute, with distance from 400m up. A good test set would be 6*400M max effort with a minute rest or more after each set. Sets such as this are helpful to long distance swimmers to improve their endurance over a long period. It can also break the monotony of continuous swimming and is very beneficial to swimmers who like to swim 200m fly. Heart rate should be 80% plus. The greatest challenge which is unique to swimmers is that [&hellip

Wednesday morning (Early – bird) swim training session will resume on Wed. 30th April & continue until Wed. 25th June; there will be nine (9) sessions & the fee will be €30 or pay as you go at €5 per session.  All of the swimmers who started this session have continued through the year which is an indication of how successful & enjoyable it is. Wednesday morning swim time is 07:00 to

Limerick Masters would like to welcome some new members to the Club. Jilly White & Meabh Scanlon have joined us and are both ex-members of Limerick Swimming. Tomas Fouhy has transferred to us from Mallow Swans, Natalia Pocelujko has joined us and is a former Polish swimmer. David Ward is back training with Limerick Masters having taken a “short” break. We also welcome Jason Boyle as an Associate, who is an ex-Shannon swimmer

The first entrant for the 2014 gala was our competitor from Russia Roman Tolstik. Roman explained to us that he comes from the Novosibirsk region of Siberia. To get to Limerick Roman took a four hour flight to Moscow followed by a four hour flight to London and then a modest hop to Shannon. Last year he participated in the British Masters and this year decided to go one step further. Roman specialises in backstroke and planned to have a go at the world record for the 50m backstroke in his age group but is was not to be on [&hellip

Well done to all those competitors and clubs who received awards at the weekend. Limerick Masters Irish Open Long Course Championships – Prize winners Best Irish Swimmer (Male): Donncha O’Siadhall, Swim4Life Best Irish Swimmer (Female): Dymphna Morris, Swim4Life Best Overseas Swimmer (Male): Jonathan Refson, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England Best Overseas Swimmer (Female): April Richards, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England Best Club of the Gala: Aer Lingus Best Overseas Club: Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, England 50m Freestyle Perpetual Trophy: John Cunningham, Potters Bar/Limerick Masters 1500m Freestyle Kearney Trophy: Anne Bourne, Camp Hill Edwardians, Birmingham. Best Limerick Swimmer (Male): Gerry Corry, Limerick Masters Best [&hellip

Hi all, Subject to ratification the following records were set by our club members in the gala over the weekend. A big thank you to Paddy Healy for compiling this list. Well done everyone. Click here to see a breakdown of Limerick Masters team results and splits from the weekend. Current records can be checked here on www.irishmastersswimming.ie To claim records Carol Cashell, the Munster recorder will happily accept email applications on carolcashell@yahoo.com and National claims can be sent by email to Jeff Philips at irishmastersnews@gmail.com. Application forms can be downloaded from here. 2014.03.01 (Irish): 40-44f:100FLY:LC, Kearney, Deirdre: 72.39 vs [&hellip

Check out the amazing photos from yesterdays gala by photographer Gordon Thomson here. Thanks Gordon. Don’t miss John Garretts shots here from yesterdays gala. Superb photography. &nbsp