Open Water Swim Clinic - Advanced

NYC Swim will present two Open Water Swim clinics this fall to help you prepare for and enhance your open water swim experience.

Level Three - Advanced Open Water Swimming consists of one evening session (Friday, Sept 23) and is designed for those who have a solid base of open water experience and who want to enhance their open water race skills. During this clinic's session, your freestyle stroke will be reviewed and key race strategies will be covered -- fast starts and finishes; advanced sighting and navigation skills; and drafting, passing and pacing skills will be enhanced.

This year, the coaches for this clinic will be Eva Fabian, 2010 5K Open Water World Champion and winner of the 2011 10K Open Water National Championships, and her coach, Jack Fabian, USA National team and 2011 World Championship coach.

Due to the heavy rains and the impact they have on visibility, we are not holding the clinic today. Weather permitting, we will hold the clinic after the Little Red Lighthouse Swim tomorrow morning at 11:15 a.m. at the north end of West Harlem Piers Park. Even if you are not participating in the swim, we hope you will be able to make it for the clinic. Directions for getting to West Harlem Piers Park can be found on the Little Red Lighthouse Swim event page.

Enroll in this Clinic

Date:

09/23/2011 (Friday)

Check In:

4:30 PM by the boat dock on the south side of the pier.

Start:

5:00 PM	Pier 25 (at N. Moore Street and the Hudson), Tribeca, Manhattan
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Pier 25 is located along the Hudson River Greenway at N. Moore Street, just north of Battery Park City, between Canal and Chambers Streets on the river side of the West Side Highway (Route 9A/West Street). By Subway: Take the 1, 2, 3, or the A, C, to Chambers Street; walk west and cross West Street. Turn right immediately, heading north on recreation path to Pier 25, the first pier north of the Battery Park City apartment complex. OR Take the 1 to Franklin Street. Cross West Street and head south for Pier 25. By Car: You can only approach the pier driving southbound from the West Side Highway. Limited parking is available on Chambers Street.

Time Limit:

1 hour

Field Size:

Minimum enrollment of 10; maximum enrollment of 25. (11 Currently Enrolled - Enrollment Closed)

Fees:

Level Three (1 session): $75

Age Requirement:

15 years and over

Experience Requirement:

Safety concerns require us to ensure that every participant in a NYC Swim swim event has adequate swim experience; thus we have set certain qualifying standards for participation in each of our events. Participants in this clinic must have completed at least five NYC Swim events or other open water swims of .9 mile (1.5 km) or greater in 2009 or more recently. [How to upload results to your NYC Swim profile]. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis; please e-mail info@nycswim.org. if you wish to be considered for this clinic.

Predicted Water Conditions:

Approximately 68-75 degrees. Wetsuits may be worn. There can be a substantial amount of chop in the water from wind and tide action. The waterways are salt-water and there is shipping traffic. There may be random jetsam and flotsam in the waterways.

Previous Year's Water Temp:

68.90 °F (20.5 °C) on 09/23/2010
73.22 °F (22.9 °C) on 09/23/2009
73.22 °F (22.9 °C) on 09/23/2008
72.68 °F (22.6 °C) on 09/23/2007
69.26 °F (20.7 °C) on 09/23/2006

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Open Water Swim Clinic - Advanced