Million Metre Challenge - sign up!

The Million Metre Challenge is a Masters Swimming Canada program designed to promote swimming for health and fitness. The program encourages regular participation through tracking of cumulative distance swum and recognition as the swimmer reaches various milestones.

Congrats to Candace, who surpassed her 100,000m milestone this week! She'll get her 100,000m milestone swim cap courtesy of Masters Swimming Canada. Only 900,000 more metres to go, you can do it!








Interested in getting started too? It's easy:

Step 1: create your mymsc.ca profile, have your mso registration number handy if you have one    http://mymsc.ca/SwimmerForm.jsp

Step 2: login to your new profile

Step 3: read the Million Metre Challenge rules   http://mymsc.ca/MillionRules.jsp

Step 4: on your new mymsc page, click on the "Add a log entry" link next to the Million Metre Challenge logo

Step 5: log your swims! Be sure to use the conversion to metres, since we swim in a yard pool! The weekly postings for workouts have the conversion in each one...


Thanks to our swimmers that are tracking their metres, our club is up there on the list for June/July! Checkout the spread close to our rank, it wouldn't take much to surpass the pack...

A little Sunday morning shark humour...

Thanks to Lois for submitting this - Rick Mercer visits Victoria, BC to train with members of Canada's Olympic swim team, a good laugh!

"Touch The Wall" - documentary due out this summer

"Touch The Wall" is an indie film in the works, that follows Missy Franklin and Kara Lynn Joyce as they prepared for the London Olympics. The trailer for the project has some great underwater swim shots, including a couple that illustrate a strong high-elbow catch (just sayin'!) and a side view of a flip-turn. The film is expected out this summer, a definite must see!

Here's the trailer, see link below for more footage:

Interesting concept - Kickstarter is a platform that allows people to raise independent funding (without corporate sponsorship) for creative projects: 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/685581697/touch-the-wall

A little Sunday morning shark humour...

Fun after-swim activity?!?

Cary submitted this fun video, very timely considering it feels like we'll never see summer ever again:

Soooo...great idea, right? 

I'm totally down for this, but you know, I'll need to stand on the sidelines so I can video-tape it, but you guys go right on ahead...