Club News
2023 Summer Swim Series Announced
The Summer Series is about to kick off! From 6-June, we will meet up at various locations every two weeks at 7pm. Dates: 6-Jun 20-Jun 4-Jul 18-Jul 1-Aug 15-Aug 29-Aug 12-Sept
Save The Date – Annual Atlantic Masters Club Swim on 16-September-2023!
The annual Atlantic Masters Club Swim will take place on 16-September at Lynches Pier. Watch this space for more information.
Lifeboat Swim on 1-July-2023!
The annual Atlantic Lifeboat Swim will take place on 1-July at Renville Pier, Oranmore, with all proceeds will be in aid of the RNLI Lifeboat Station in Galway and the local Rescue Services. [...]
Pre-2022/3 Coached Training Sessions Presentation
On 22-Sept, before we began our practices for the season, Brian and Keith held an online session to discuss a selection of topics as requested by the club. You can find other posts in Swimmers' [...]
Atlantic Masters Club Swim Results – 2022 (Revised 9-Sept 17:57)
Thank you all who were able to take part in this great event. It was a fantastic day. Results: Atlantic Masters Club Swim Female Skins [...]
Atlantic Lifeboat Swim Results
Thank you all who were able to donate and take part in this great event. Results: Female Skins 1 Joanne Flannagan 33:1020 2 MILLY COSTELLO 36:540 3 [...]
AMSC Takes Part in Hit The Wall 2022
Two members of the AMSC crew took part in Hit The Wall 2022, an annual camp featuring several challenging swims over a long weekend in Co. Louth. (Keith also appeared for support.) Swimmers of many [...]
Atlantic Lifeboat Swim Rescheduled—It’s Coming Soon!
July 23rd 2022 Our swim has been rescheduled and is coming soon! You can register here in [...]
2022 Summer Swim Series – 1 – Lynches Pier
The summer series kicked off with a bang with over 30 swimmers taking part under supervision of our safety crew for the day. Details about our next swim in Ballynacourty can be [...]
Drilling Presentations
Based on questions and feedback from my earlier posts in Swimmers' Corner, Keith provided a presentation on 13-Apr-2022. Deck: 20220413-Atlantic Masters He also completed a related presentation last year: [...]
AMSC Goes To The Irish Open Long Course Swimming Championships – March 4th and 5th, 2022
The Basics The Irish Open Long Course Swimming Championships is held at the University of Limerick every year over a Friday and Saturday every March. One fantastic fact about this competition is that it is [...]
AMSC Club Party – March 4, 2022
March 4th 2022 It's been a long time since we've had a chance to meet up together and celebrate our members' achievements. Come along for some laughs, cheers and a few [...]
AMSC Goes to UL – March 12, 2022
We know that you can complete a different type of workout in the pool versus the sea. Having the ability to drill and complete other work to practice elements of your swimming without also having [...]
Atlantic Lifeboat Swim – 2022 – Save the Date
June 25th 2022 Atlantic Masters Swimming Club will be running a swim event at Renville Pier, Oranmore [...]
Swim Analysis — Is it worth it?
Hi all, as you know the club ran a Swim Analysis by swim coach Robert Mooney in Dec, and I was asked to give a brief overview of the analysis. The analysis took up the [...]
Swim for Sorcha
Swim for Sorcha August 12 th & 13 th 2020 Inis Mór to Salthill, Co. Galway. There are swims, then there are epic swims. This was an epic swim! Whilst the 40km distance from Inis [...]
Cold Water Swimming
How cold is “Cold Water”? There is no magic number of what constitutes ‘cold’. Yours, mine and the next person’s ‘cold-ometer’ is going to be different and that’s okay. Be independent and responsible in your [...]
A List of My Favorite…Drills? (2 of 2)
During my previous post A List of My Favorite Drills (1 of 2), I wrote about why and how you might want to utilize drills to improve your swimming as well as noting when it [...]
A List of My Favorite…Drills? (1 of 2)
I’ve been asked a lot about drills lately. So, as it’s the season, I thought it’d be good to provide you with some information about my favorite drills and why I do them. To start, [...]