Looking for a Swim Coach - Philly Suburbs

Joanna Chodorowska. If she can teach me to swim, she can teach anyone (and she does).

I bailed from tri's last year because of my swim. Started with her end of January and routinely do HIM distance in OWS now. I feel good about it enough to sign up for a full IM next year!

I have a lesson with her today. We went from weekly to biweekly to once a month as I progressed. I'm still slow, but safe, and enjoy swimming finally. 

Depending on where you are located, AIM4Tri - Mary Kelley, holds swim sessions at St. Joe's university on Wednesdays. The sessions are from 7p-8p now and she also does private lessons.

her site www.aim4tri.com

Mary's helped me get more pull out of my strokes (wow, that could be taken the wrong way  

Marc

I'll be there this evening if you are able to join us. Not sure how difficult tonight will be as several of the swimmers have SheROX coming up so the workout maybe be a bit on the slower side to not over do it for them.

Marc

Approximate cost for these coaches?

I found one person (not mentioned here) who wanted $75/hour with a minimum of 4 hours' worth of lessons--is this reasonable?

I've heard prices anywhere from $50-$100 per hour for private sessions.

If you can, see if you can jump in on some group swims, see how things go, the coach and how folks interact with him/her and then decide if you want private lessons or not.

just my .02

junr