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The Soggy Log ~ March 1 -13, 2010

We have one more week scheduled for our Winter Session (March 8 – 13/10), with all swimming ending on Saturday March 13/10. March 8 – 13/10 is KSS Swim-a-thon Week. Please refer to the Swim-a-thon 2010 information on the reverse side of this Soggy Log. During the week of March 15 – 20/10 (School Spring [...]

The Soggy Log ~ Feb 1-7, 2010

Manitoba Marlins New Years Swim Meet, January 23 & 24, 2010 ~ A good swim meet for the five KSS swimmers who traveled to Winnipeg on Friday afternoon; the other five KSS swimmers who had planned to travel into Winnipeg on either Saturday or Sunday AM’s were unable to make the trip due to the [...]

The Soggy Log ~ January 18 – 23, 2010

NWO Regional Education & Training Camp, January 15, 16, 17, 2010 in Thunder Bay ~ A long weekend, and an excellent swim camp. Our swimmers did a minimal amount of swimming (in terms of “hard” work in the pool) but lots of time was spent working on skills and basic training concepts such as “even” [...]

The First SOGGY LOG of 2010

Welcome back everyone after a short Christmas Holiday break in training, and then all the hard work done during our Christmas Schedule. All our swimmers appeared to enjoy their Christmas break, with relaxing and eating and sleeping-in being high on the list of things to do. Then they really got back into some hard training, [...]

The Soggy Log ~ December 14 – 19, 2009

Welcome everyone to the KSS 2009 – 2010 Winter Session. And a very special welcome to a number of new Junior Sharks Program members who will be starting their swimming careers today (Monday) and/or Wednesday PM’s. Some hints for all our swimmers: Please make certain that you dry your hair and wear a hat after [...]

The Soggy Log ~ November 16-21, 2009

KSS Fall Invitational Swim Meet: A super swim meet for the KSS. Congratulations to all our swimmers who swam so very well, and to all our many KSS parents and other volunteers who worked so very hard during the whole weekend to make sure that this swim meet ran so smoothly. We pushed through a [...]

The Soggy Log ~ October 26-31, 2009

Great Wolf Howling Halloween Swim Meet ~ October 24 & 25/09 ~ Coon Rapids (Minneapolis), MN: A very good swim meet for the KSS!!!!! Many Personal Best Times (based on times recorded at this meet last year), and some really good racing by our KSS swimmers. I was really pleased that we had just one [...]

The Soggy Log ~ October 16, 2009

Edie and I are back from Kona, Hawaii and I feel like it is time to really get our new swim season into high gear. Kona was wonderful; extremely beautiful, tremendous weather, amazing black sand beaches, and the sea turtles and fish seen while snorkeling were just out of this world. The Ironman was quite [...]

Soggy Log ~ September 8-12

Welcome everyone to the start of the 2009 – 2010 Swim Season. This is year two of our current quadrennial leading up to the 2012 London Olympics. I believe that we made real progress in 2008 – 2009 towards our stated goal of having a small group of KSS swimmers competing at the 2012 Olympic [...]

SUMMER SOGGY LOG

Whew, our “almost” summer is certainly moving quickly towards September and the start of a new Swim Season. I hope that everyone has enjoyed their time away from the pool, that you have all remained active during the summer, and that you will all be returning to the KSS in September with renewed energy and [...]