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Our teammate Misty Varnell will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday and has kindly invited the entire Asheville Masters Swimming group to join her at New Belgium Brewery on their lawn after 6 PM on Friday, March 4! Wowee!! We hope y’all can make it out and share the love in this awesome social setting. … Continue reading Open Invite to Celebrate a Birthday! →

3 weeks of workouts have stacked up, here’s what you’ve done recently!

Asheville Masters, as per USMS guidelines, we have had a person exposed to Covid in the pool last week, and they developed symptoms this past weekend and have been out all week. If you have had Covid and you remain symptom-free for five days and you have a negative test you are welcome to come … Continue reading Workouts and Covid →

We will swim regular time Tuesday morning, 5:45 AM, main roads are clear in West Asheville. Avoid the neighborhoods. Here are swims we’ve done in last week:

Snow finally coming down, 4”+ so far. Stay warm and enjoy.

In addition to our regular schedule we’re adding this Saturday, Jan 15th from 5:45 AM to 7:15 AM, just in case we get snowed out on Sunday. What is “snowed out” you ask? I have no idea.

We will keep the early start time on Sundays going forward, beginning at 6:30 AM, ending at 8:30 AM. Come when you can or when you want, no obligation to start at the earlier hour. Thanks for remembering to renew your 2022 United States Masters Swimming registration with North Carolina Masters as your club and … Continue reading Sundays 6:30-8:30am →

Nine of us gathered on Sunday morning, January 2nd to tackle a newly adjusted version of our annual tradition of swimming the former 3-day college championships schedule around the New Year, which totals 6,000 yards! Jim Green, Tom Fiedler, Kathleen Moore and Jay Mahler cranked out the most yardage they’ve swum in quite a while! … Continue reading Biggie…for US! →

Let’s start off Day 2 of your new year with a big swim on Sunday morning, 6:30 AM to 8:30 AM! The Science definitely recommends bringing a water bottle with you to practice, and even a Clif Bar or similar, especially when we go a little more than usual, even for old schoolers! Hydration cannot … Continue reading Happy New Year! →

Regular swim Thursday and Friday this week at 5:45 AM. Come join us if able! *Sunday, January 2 we will start 30 minutes early (6:30am-8:30am) allowing a bit more time to complete what has become our annual monster workout where we swim all three days of the (former) college championship format! I will be adjusting … Continue reading Holiday Week and Sunday Breakfast at Home Ground! →