Huntington Masters Swim Team: OWS

Huntington Masters Swim Team

The Huntington Masters Swim Team ("HUMS"), an official club of US Masters Swimming, holds daily early-morning pool workouts year-round at the Huntington YMCA, 60 Main Street, Huntington (contact the Y at 631-421-4242 for Full Y membership fee information).

Indoor Pool Workouts in one of the Y’s two 25-yard pools begin at 5:30 a.m. weekdays and 7:00 a.m. weekends and last one to two hours. These workouts are open to all Full Y members.

Open-Water Swims are held from May to November at West Neck Beach and other local Long Island beaches. Outdoor swim schedules are posted on The Water-Blog.

Want to swim for the Home Team? You can! Join HUMS at clubassistant.com.

Monday, June 02, 2008

OWS - Week oj June 2nd

For those interested, this weeks OWS schedule at West Neck Beach is

Tuesday June 3rd : 6am
Wed June 4th : 6am ( some may start at 6:30am )
Thursday : 6am but not confirmed
Friday : 6am but not confirmed
Sat and Sun. Times to be determined but there will be people swimming in the AM

The course generally swum is 1.25 miles with a break in the middle. Some swim an extension to this route that goes 1.8 miles. A 3K swim is also done but generally on the weekends. If you want to be notified of upcoming swim , you can email me at robmartell@optonline.net to be included in the email list.

Meeting for the swim is at West Neck Beach entrance ( on West Neck Road ).

Water temperature is about 60 to 61 these days and wet suit is usually required , except for the bravest.

Everything is weather dependant.

Rob