DISCLAIMER: Open-water swimming is inherently dangerous. Open-water swimmers risk drowning, hypothermia, hyperthermia, heart attacks, panic attacks, cramping, jelly fish stings, fish bites, boat or jet-ski collisions, collisions with floating or submerged objects (including other swimmers), and other calamities that can be injurious, disabling or fatal! The "West Neck Pod" is an informal association of open-water swimmers who swim "outside the lines" with no lifeguard protection, it has no formal membership, organizational structure or legal identity, and its participants, including the author of this blog, make no representations and assume no liability with respect to its group open-water swims. All swimmers who participate in West Neck Pod group open-water swims do so at their own risk. Be careful out there!

Monday, June 20, 2011

Tick...tick...tick...Registration Deadline for June 26th 1&2 Mile Swim at West Neck Beach is Approaching...!!

The West Neck Pod is excited and proud to be hosting the first-ever HUNTINGTON-COLD SPRING HARBOR 1 and 2 MILE SWIM at our home beach, West Neck Beach, on Sunday June 26th! (There are both wetsuit and non-wetsuit divisions for you Tri-types, as well as a 400-meter event for athletes 10 and under.) Pod members joined in the planning of this first-time event with local members of sponsoring organizations US Masters Swimming (go, HUMS!) and USA Swimming to make it as organized, safe, and FUN as it can possibly be!  More than 150 swimmers have already registered -- and the deadline to do so is fast-approaching!  On-line registration closes at 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, June 21st, so if you're one of those last-minute types, tick...tick...tick...!  Follow these links for more detailed information and to register for the USMS, Open, and USA Swimming divisions:
US Masters Swimming:
https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1743&smid=3166 (register as a member of the Huntington Masters Swim Team ["HUMS"] and swim for the "Home Team"!)
USA Swimming:
https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1743&smid=3182
Open:
https://www.clubassistant.com/club/meet_information.cfm?c=1743&smid=3183

The Swim is a benefit for the Huntington YMCA's Swim Scholarship Program for kids in need, so come on out and do some good while having fun in this exceptionally beautiful open-water venue!

See you in the West Neck Salt on the 26th!

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