Swim Training

2011

INDOOR

Stantonbury

Thursday from 19:30-20:30. Cost: £2 for adult and £1 for kids.

We have 1-3 club coaches available at most session. The coaches set the sessions, oversee the kids training and give individual stroke correction when time allows. Mark Booth, Robin Dowswell and Toni Heap are the current coaches you are most likely to encounter. There are 6 lanes. Currently we have kids and novice adults in the first 2 lanes who are coached by Toni Heap and then the next 4 lanes contain swimmers with standards roughly as follows

Lane        400m time

Lane 3    7:30-8:30

Lane 4    6:45-7:30

Lane 5    6:00-6:45

Lane 6    5:15-6:00

Friday from 20:30-21:30 is CMK masters swimming. TeamMK members are welcome to pay at the desk and join in.

Sunday The Sunday session is under review. I'l wait to assess interest from the Thursday sessions in Sept/Oct and go from there.

OUTDOOR

LAKES

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Please note that TeamMK the club and committee is not in any way responsible for the safety and procedures at any of the open water venues below. While TeamMK members may be involved with coaching, giving advice and leading groups in the water, the club itself is not involved in setting the prices, assessing the safety or any other issues associated with the open water swimming venues below. However you should find that sessions there are normally well run and great places to improve your open water skills.

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Haversham

Open from May-September. This session is run by BodyLimits, but bear in mind you swim at your own risk. The organisers hold no responsibility for your own safety, they have just secured the venue and facilities for your use from the Haversham sailing club. ** FINAL SWIM ON Sun 18th Sep **

Timetable:

Tue and Wed:  06:00-08:00

Sat:                 07:00-08:30

Sun:                18:00-19:30

Cost:

£50 for season long membership

£5 per session otherwise.

Coaching:

The standard BTF definition of open water coaching involves coaches on dry land or boats giving instructions to swimmers in the water. We have 2 open water qualified coaches in the club, Robin Dowswell and Toni Heap.

You may get advice or a session led by one of the club coaches or another senior swimmer in the water. This however does not constitute a coached session and as such the instructor is not insured by the BTF.

Wetsuits:

These can be hired from http://www.triandrun.com/triathlon/hire-wetsuits.html for a season for £40. Otherwise if you are going to be a regular, buy your own.

Directions:

The lake is in Haversham village about 1 mile north of Milton Keynes. Access is via Haversham village about 20m south of the public phone box. The OS grid reference is 833430 on Landranger map 152.

Brogborough

Swimming is available most days. Please check the forum for when other people are going.

Currently Boxfirt Tri, who also use Brogborough are going on Mon, Wed and Fri.

The default times for TeamMK people at the moment is 6:00am Mon, Wed and Fri.

Box End

Swimming is available most days at Box End water park near Kempson, Bedford, MK43 8RQ.

It is a popular venue with TeamMK members and many have gone on Thursday evenings during the summer. Evening swims stop at end of August

However, weekend early morning swim and lunchtime swims continue Tue-Fri.

Please see: http://www.boxendpark.com/fitness.html for more