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OCTOBER 2018
Swim Buddies TCSD Contacts Board Members
TRIATHLON CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
OCTOBER TCSD EVENTS OCTOBER SOCIAL Thursday, October 11th Location: Off Shore Tavern & Grill 2253 Morena Blvd. 5:30 PM – 8 PM Come meet your new President! Hoping to see some of the other board members there too!!! Drop in for some food/drinks, fun and friendship. This is a great way to meet some new workout buddies, see your friends outside of workout clothes (although we don’t mind if you finish a workout and drop by) and just have a fun time. Every month our group grows a little bigger. Look for us in the patio area of the restaurant. As usual there could be a giveaway or two.
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Welcome New Members You’re an Ironman Weekly Workout Calendar Member Profile
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TCSD Conversation Health Benefits Coach’s Corner
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Tri News
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Open water is an entirely different world than the pool. In the pool, there’s no
buoys, sighting, chop and packs of various speeds. In fact, triathlon open water swimming adds, quite literally, a “washing machine” of fists and feet to an already intimidating deep, dark, cold, temperamental force without walls. This daunting anxiety has been silenced for hundreds at local triathlon races in the last 10+ years thanks to swim buddy volunteering. A swim buddy is not a pacer, a coach or a lifeguard. A swim buddy is an active cheering swimming spectator following in the water during the swim wave of a triathlon to serve the triathlon community in various ways: n Physical support for challenged and injured
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athletes, before, during and/or after getting out of the water Moral support to build courage besides the fear of deep water, being forgotten, being hit by flying limbs, not completing the distance in time n Moral support as a confidence boost to those tired from prior training’s demands, needing reinforcement to get started to first buoy n Safety sweeper per wave to guarantee that all that enter the water, exit the water!
Who can be a swim buddy? The local swim distances that allow swim buddy volunteering are ItsyBitsy Sprint (youth), Sprint, International, and Olympic. If you swim those distances as a workout or warm-up, you could be a swim buddy! If you are motivated by helping others fulfill their goals, while being comfortable in open water, you were made to be a swim buddy! Being prepared and confident in completing the distance you select is vital. Since the pace for swim buddying is based on being calm, observant and speaking anticipate treading water, side stroke drills, and swimming with head out of the continued on page 14