Author Archives
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Crossing the Sea of Cortés – June 2014
Over the past few months, Susan and I have become good friends with Vito Bialla, a larger than life guy who means it when he says “when something is worth doing, do it full throttle”. Vito has found many things… Read More ›
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Swim4Good nominated for 2013 Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Award
We just learned that Swim4Good has been nominated by the World Open Water Swimming Association as one of the finalists for the 2013 Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Award. WOWSA describes the award as follows: The nominees for… Read More ›
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What’s your dream swim challenge? (4 minute survey)
We’re interested in finding out what sort of marathon challenges y’all are thinking about, how likely is it that you will follow through with the challenge, and what are the main obstacles for not doing so. When we have a… Read More ›
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Marnaton eDreams Cadaqués: 38 hours of swimming and friends
The 6th edition of Marnaton eDreams Cadaqués 6.5 km took place last Saturday with the participation of 700 swimmers. I was very happy to have Owen O’Keefe come down from Ireland to participate in this event. Hopefully next year Owen… Read More ›
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Thoughts on the Diana Nyad Controversy
For anybody interested in marathon swimming and wanting to have a better context into Diana Nyad’s swim, The Marathon Swimmers Forum‘s thread titled 110 miles, 53 hours: questions for Diana Nyad should be required reading. In it, swimmers raised legitimate questions in… Read More ›
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Damian Blaum: World Champion FINA Open Water 2013
(Si quieres ver esta entrevista en Español, por favor ve aquí). In November 2012, we had the pleasure of interviewing Damian Blaum on this blog. Back then, Damian had already an enviable swimming career, having been ranked #2 in the year… Read More ›
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Damian Blaum: Campeón del Mundo de Aguas Abiertas 2013 FINA Grand Prix
(If you want to see this interview in English, please go here) En noviembre 2012, tuvimos el placer de entrevistar a Damian Blaum en este blog. En ese momento, Damian tenía ya un repertorio envidiable en el deporte de natación de… Read More ›
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New Swim4Good Caps – Do You Want One?
We finally received our new Swim4Good swim caps. One side of the cap shows a map (with a blue dot in the Strait of Gibraltar) that has the names of all the people who helped us reach $106.450 in donations… Read More ›
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10 months in review
We love to hear friends tell us they’re inspired to start swimming. We were especially thrilled when we got an e-mail from Mark entitled “Some serious questions” in which he told us that he considering the challenge of swimming the Strait… Read More ›
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New Swim4Good Caps – Giving 30 away
In a couple of weeks we will get some awesome new Swim4Good caps designed by our friends at Ocean Factory. We’ve got 30 caps for those who want ’em, free of charge. The map = all the folks who helped us reach… Read More ›
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