We’re tall people.  Short people.  Thin people.  Not so thin people.  Older people.  Younger people.  People who swam in college.  People who just learned to swim and seek new challenges.  People who are in perfect health.   People who face struggles each day because of chronic illnesses.

We’re proud to say that one of our MTSC Masters has received a bit of national recognition by our governing body, United States Masters Swimming!   Rebecca “Big Red” Ehmling is the lead story on the USMS website:  www.usms.org.  Rebecca describes her battle with rheumatoid arthritis in an article called “Swimming for Life”.  I know you’ll be inspired.

Swimming for Life is what masters swimming is all about. Swimming is truly a sport that you can enjoy for a lifetime.   Knees and hips get a lot of wear and tear from pounding the pavement; the water offers an equally challenging workout without the stress on the joints.

Seeking new challenges keeps life interesting.  The women of MTTC, our new tri club, have requested a women’s swim and spin midweek workout.  To that end, we are launching our Women’s Swim and Spin this Thursday at 9:30 in the Endurance Geeks’ Human Performance Lab.  For your convenience, you can drive around to the back of the building and unload your bikes there.

Our regular Saturday Swim and Spin that normally meets on the pool deck will also meet in the Endurance Geeks’ Human Performance Lab at 9:30 because our new starting blocks are being installed!

Next, we advance our mission to bring the very best medical personnel and credentialed coaches to our athletes.  To accomplish this, our Doctors Summit will continue this month.  Dr. Brandon Jenkins will speak to the Middle Tennessee Triathlon Club on Sunday afternoon, February 28th at 1:30 p.m.  He will speak about active release therapy and will demonstrate ART on team members at the meeting.  Dr. Jenkins is a Doctor of Chiropractic, Board Certified in Physiotherapy, a certified strength coach, and has a degree in Applied Kinesiology.  The meeting will be held at Endurance Geeks’ Human Performance Lab.  NOTE:  this meeting is for MTTC members ONLY.

Mark your calendar for Saturday, March 6th at 9:30 a.m. (immediately after our masters’ workout) where MTSC’s own Dr. Dave Trenner of Vanderbilt Sports Medicine will be our featured speaker.  This session will be open to anyone in the Hendersonville  running/multisport community who is interested.   This open forum will address treatment and prevention of injuries to the foot and ankle that are common to runners and triathletes, such as plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendonitis.  Dr. Trenner does a terrific job of addressing these concerns.  We encourage any of you who wish to attend and have a specific concern to ask Dr. Trenner, to please email it in advance to commandoswimmer@hotmail.com in order to keep our meeting pertinent, focused and streamlined.  This session will meet in our Multi-use Room.

Since February is a month all about the heart, our regular MTSC Masters’ workouts will focus on progressive heart rate sets.  This will be an exciting phase in our training cycle that will be sure to inspire us through these bleak mid-winter months.

We’ll see you on deck!