Get Ready for the 2009 Triathlon Season!

As a triathlete, you dedicate hours from your busy schedule for training. Learn how to maximize this training time by focusing on economy and efficiency of movement. In this time-limited world, you need to utilize every training minute to its fullest to fulfill your athletic potential. Let us show you how.

To help you achieve your triathlon goals, check out these upcoming events:

Open Water Swim Practice

June 27 and July 11 - Mirror Lake, NH
Practice group starts, sighting, positioning, dealing with panic attacks in the water, navigating, and exiting, as well as tips on practicing in-the-water stroke techniques. Cost: $45 (just $35 for USAT members!) Register for these clinics in our store.

Women Venture Triathlon Training Camp

August 24 - 28, 2009
Join us for an all-women camp with an all-women staff focusing on both skillls and training for triathlon. Develop your stroke using Total Immersion swimming with Celeste St.Pierre, build skills for the bike with 2000 Olympian, Nicole Freedman, learn to run efficiently and effortlessly with ChiRunning led by Ann Margaret McKillop.

Options include a 1-day, 2-day, or 4-day camp. The 1-day campers enjoy one full day on Monday of training sessions (8am - 9pm) and 3 meals. Our 2-day campers enjoy all training sessions for two days, Monday and Tuesday, as well as 6 meals and overnight lodging. Or, come to all 4 days of camp and enjoy all the activities. 4-day campers can sign up for training sessions only or for training with full room/board.

Registration prices are as follows:

1-day: Monday only (8am - 9pm) + 3 meals = $129.00
2-days: Monday & Tuesday + 1 night lodging and 6 meals = $299.00
4-days: Monday - Thursday (training only) = $395
4-days: Monday - Thursday (training + room/board) = $600
Registration closes July 24, 2009.

Register before July 1st and receive a sport psychology consult with Carrie (30 min for 1 or 2-day campers, 45 min for 4-day campers).

BONUS DISCOUNT!! Get 15% off the registration fee for the 2009 Fireman Triathlon in Kennebunk, Maine (August 30, 2009) when you sign up for our Women Venture Camp!! Sign up for the triathlon at their website: www.wkfiretri.com

Swim Lessons

Tuesdays and Thursdays at Loon Mountain Resort in Lincoln, NH and Fridays at the Laconia Athletic & Swim Club in Laconia, NH. Also, lessons are now available by appointment in Massachusetts at the Burbank YMCA in Reading, MA.

Call today to set up your one-hour or half-hour private swim lesson. Call Celeste at 603-616-7125 or email .

Also be sure to check our Schedule for the complete list of our swim and triathlon training events.

Customer Testimonials

"I have had the good fortune of working with Celeste for several months now. With thoughtful and expert instruction, she has brought an efficiency and fluidity to my swim stroke resulting in faster times with less effort!! What a joy! As I approach my first Ironman [Ironman Lake Placid] this summer, I have a new sense of confidence, and am looking forward to the challenge ahead. Thank you, Celeste! Onward!! - Kim Cole, Kennebunk, ME

"This past year our triathlon club had the pleasure of working with Celeste to develop a swimming workshop for our members. The success of our program is shown in so many ways but a couple of situations stand out. There are the two women who signed up for the 'learn-to-swim' class. They had never been in water over their head. After one hour, they were swimming. At the end of the class they swam the length of the pool. One women is registered for her first triathlon this summer.

Then there is our tri club member that has been taking swim intruction in a masters swim program at a local college, but she wasn't getting faster. So she signed up for the Total Immersion Swim class with Celeste. Her swimming was more relaxed, less exhaustive and she was faster. Her old coach told her that her swim stroke wasn't correct and got her to change back. Her swim times went down with the old stroke. So now she is back to the Total Immersion swim stoke she learned from Celeste and she is swimming efficiently.

There are so many people who have stopped me to tell me how much they have enjoyed the class. They are swimming in an effective and comfortable way. Their swim times are down and they are covering more distance with less effort.

Then there is my personal experience of learning a very effective swim stroke. Then losing that stroke for a while from lack of proper practice. Then with just one lesson, Celeste worked me back to the basics and my effective and correct stoke has returned. My only complaint is that Celeste is so popular with our tri club that I can't get a lesson!" - Chris Ebbrecht, Kennebunk Beach Tri Club, Biddeford, ME

"Celeste is an accomplished mentor. The combination of her unsurpassed knowledge, positive reinforcement and humor was just the thing I needed to train for my 2 swims across Squam Lake. Celeste is a joy to work with and I can guarantee your swimming technique will be transformed!" - Wendy Van de Poll, MS, LMT

"I enjoy that I feel relaxed on the swim, yet according to my swim times, I am holding a good pace. Before training with Celeste, I didn't think that the swim could be my favorite part of a tri." - John Monhagan

"Celeste has an instinctive feel for the water and more importantly, the person. Though she is on the side of the pool, it seems that she is also right in there with you. Her instructions are based on a keen awareness of what you are experiencing and each session feels like a series of breakthroughs in improving my stroke." - Rosemarie deMars

" I believe I am mostly a kinesthetic learner, so actually practicing and attending the camps are most helpful to me. However, I do feel the videos [seeing herself on videotape] really augmented my learning. The timing of the weekend camp video was crutial... we had the time to sit in the room and watch each other [and] hear you critique others. I really liked the comparison of the camp video with us and then you; I feel like I can study the way it is supposed to look and visualize this when in the water. " - Kathy

Video Clips - Celeste Swims Freestyle

Here are three video clips of Celeste St. Pierre swimming freestyle using Total Immersion technique. Notice how Celeste is quiet in the above water views and in the underwater view, she is parallel to the water's surface, not swimming "uphill" (a common problem). You can get a video of yourself swimming freestyle, just like this. See our schedule of events for more information.

Above Water - Side View

Above Water - Front View