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• Feeling Cold

  By emilykunze on February 5, 2013 • ( 9 )

  

  A few months into our cold water acclimation, I wanted to post an update about my progress. Perhaps for some of you non-cold water people, this can encourage you to get out there and try it because it’s really not… Read More ›

• A Cautionary Tale: Have you experienced anything strange while swimming in Open Water?

  By emilykunze on January 25, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  Almost 5 months down the line, swimming in open water is only slightly less scary for me than it was before our Gibraltar training endeavor. I have made an important improvement with cold water during the last couple of months…. Read More ›

• Mau: Our Fearless Leader

  By emilykunze on January 14, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Mauricio is a natural leader and motivator; his work for the team, for the blog, for the cause and for each of us deserves a special mention. Our team leader strangely enough was not associated with the sport of swimming… Read More ›

• Swimming for Something Bigger Than Me

  By emilykunze on November 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  When you swim for hours, your mind wanders. For those hard-core open water swimmers out there, I will remind you that we are still just getting back into shape, so an 8k in the pool qualifies as a long mind-wandering… Read More ›

• How swimming in cold water affects muscles

  By emilykunze on November 3, 2012 • ( 10 )

  After reading about how so many OW swimmers swim without wetsuits I decided that I needed to toughen up.  Mau took me to his 20C ocean water pool for my first cold water pool training.  Our objective was to do… Read More ›

• Energy Bars, Gels and Drinks

  By emilykunze on October 28, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  Food is so important to any athlete and as I have gotten older, I have found that my body needs a lot more TLC that when I was in my 20s. For example, last year while training for a half… Read More ›

• Neda el Mon – 7.5k – Cold Waters

  By emilykunze on October 28, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  In college and high school I did the 6am practices and never got used to getting up, in fact, I think I grew increasing allergic to them. So waking up at 6am to swim in the cold Med for the… Read More ›

• Part III Skin – How Swimming Makes You Ugly

  By emilykunze on October 24, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  SKIN As swimmers, we don’t get bruises like the women soccer or field hockey players but we do get chaffing.  This is mostly caused by the harshness of the salt from sea but can also be caused by using a… Read More ›

• Part II – Shoulders – How Swimming Makes You Ugly

  By emilykunze on October 18, 2012 • ( 3 )

  I admire with great envy women with wimpy spaghetti arms. As a swimmer, however, I will never be one of them.  Casually shopping at lunch today, the sales woman, grabbed a shirt I was looking at and said, “Vaya, tu… Read More ›

• Ordinary People….

  By emilykunze on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  There is a lot going on this week with our Sitges 10k race tomorrow (and my first 10k race in the Sea) but more on that later! We need to give a shout out to Angela and Isabel for completing… Read More ›