Hi Emilie,

I'm Jeff. There is a very large TNT group here in Monterey, and you
may want to check it out if you are interested in keeping with that
charity. The masters program at the sports center is a no starter. I
have talked at length with managers and the top guys who run the
arboretum at the center and the schedule is just too tight, and the
instructors are too few. They are a community pool serving the
community at large, not necessarily athletes... as you may have found,
the sports center is more of a retirement community than anything else
:) They have a lot of water aerobics and kids swim training, but thats
it. However, there are a lot of great swimmers at NPS and in the area
in general, and there are hopes that when the new sports center in
Marina is finished that a masters program will develop there
considering that facility will be geared towards athletes and not the
areas large retired population. If you'd like to work on swimming let
me know, I could probably help. There is another guy on MT2T that is a
really great swimmer also, Wes, who might be able to help you out with
some workouts or something (I'll let him speak for himself).

Cheers,
JP

On 9/19/07, wlfprnss04 <nitewolf04@...> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Emilie and my husband and I have been stationed here at NPS for
> 18 months. In
> fact, he is finishing his first quarter in the program this week. While he
> was in the sandbox
> last year I picked up triathlon training to keep myself busy. Since this
> time last year, I have
> done a sprint and an olympic tri. I trained with Team-in-Training in
> Maryland for the last
> event and I am really missing the group experience. I would love to join
> some group
> workouts if there are any coming up. I have just gotten back into the
> training in the last few
> weeks so I cannot bike or run as far or fast as I did while training for
> the last event, but I am
> working on it.
>
> I also read a thread posted last year about y'all wanting to develop a
> Master's Swimming
> program at Monterey Sports Center. I am curious if that ever got started.
> If not I would love
> to help get that started again if anyone is interested.
>
> I hope to meet you all soon.
>
>


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