wow - my swim stinks!

thanks so much! i am leaving quivira sports & health and joining healthridge. i saw that healthridge has a masters swim program 2 nights a week and on saturdays. i wish they had a morning/day class, but i'll take what i can get!!

Not sure about the masters program at Healthridge (From what I have seen they are not to friendly), but other than that you will love Healthridge, I belong and so do many other Triathlete's.

thanks for the reply...i'm a little nervous about them not being friendly! do you mean the staff in general, or the masters swim teachers? i thought about hiring a tri coach at the end of nov., so maybe i'll go that route and forgo the masters.

Getting a coach maybe, maybe a way to go. I belong to KC Blazers masters team. Masters team swimming can go two ways.
The coach spits out the WU, drill set, main set, CD, you get it done, talk a little to your fellow swimmers and triathletes and you go home. No real supervision, no stroke work, no one on one assesment and guidance for improvement. Your only bet is to look around, pick few strong swimmers and watch how they swim.
The other way, which is not that wide spread, masters coaches do get involved in serious stroke work, providing drills and guidance in correcting stroke flaws.
Just make sure you understand what your limiters are and pick a route that will best adress that.
On the other hand when you hire a tri coach, you will get that one on one assesment and guidance. That being said, I don't have a tri coach.
Hope this somewhat helps with making some choices. You will have others chime in on the subject with more experience than I have.

The staff at Healthridge is friendly, but the swim maters coach or whatever she is (If she is still there, this was sometime about a year ago) was not. I was in the pool swimming and wanting to talk to her about joining and had about 10 minutes to go before the start of her class. She was in the biggest hurry to get me out of the pool and seemed like she did not even have time to talk to help me join the class, she was very rude...

I would go the way of a coach, that is what I am thinking of doing this winter after Ironman Arizona and a little rest (The swim is really the only part holding me back now from placing very well).