Workouts & Events

This Sunday we will offer a twofer! We will have our regular Asheville School swim opportunity 630 to 8:15 AM, and then an Open Water swim at 9am at Biltmore / Enka Lake! We will meet at the beach behind the clubhouse like we always have. Please bring an open water swim floaty as part … Continue reading Open Water this Sunday June 7th at 9am →

We got reports of elevated E. coli levels late last evening and with the steady and hard rain we've received the last several hours in the Enka /West Asheville area, and out of an abundance of caution we will cancel our open water this morning. Regular swim tomorrow morning on Sunday 6:30 AM to 8:30 … Continue reading 6 AM update Saturday morning – open water canceled due to runoff →

Bonus! We will have an Open Water swim option tomorrow, Saturday the 30th at 8am at Biltmore / Enka Lake! We will meet at the beach behind the clubhouse like we always have. Please bring an open water swim floaty as part of our requirement to swim here, similar to picture below attached to Laura … Continue reading Open Water 8am Saturday May 30th →

This Sunday we will offer a twofer! We will have our regular Asheville School swim opportunity 630 to 8:15 AM, and then an Open Water swim at 9am at Biltmore / Enka Lake! We will meet at the beach behind the clubhouse like we always have. Please bring an open water swim floaty as part … Continue reading Open Water this Sunday May 24! →

Recent Montreat college graduate Christopher Serna completed his first full-length IronMan triathlon in Jacksonville last weekend and for all intents and purposes… Crushed it!! Full results seen here. Christopher has only been swimming with our group for about 3-4 months or so, and his 2.4 mile swim (1:04:24 total time) with no wetsuit averaged a … Continue reading Congratulations Christopher Serna on your first IRONMAN! →

Asheville School has graduation celebrations and festivities this coming Sunday and Monday, and there will be no swimming on these days for our masters group! However, we do have a bonus Swim offered this Saturday the 16th from 6 AM to 8 AM.

We had three of our lane mates swimming at the beautiful Greensboro Aquatic Center last weekend at the annual spring short-course nationals put on by United States Masters Swimming, our governing body. Jim Green, 81, I had a fourth place finish in the 1650 yard freestyle after leading most of the way, and some doubled … Continue reading Asheville swimmers strong & fast at USMS Spring Nationals in Greensboro!  →

Please come welcome Zachary Moody on Wednesday morning as he coaches his first workout with the Asheville Masters Swimming group! Coach Moody is finishing his first year here at UNC Asheville with the Women's swimming Bulldogs and has recently finished a masters degree at the University of Akron in Ohio after completing undergraduate studies at … Continue reading Coach Zachary Moody on deck Wednesday! →