Estamos felices de contar con Sailfish, marca líder en el mundo del Triatlón, que apoyará nuestro proyecto del cruce de Gibraltar con el objetivo de ayudarnos a recaudar $100.000 para la ONG Worldreader. Muchas gracias a Pepe Navarro, Director General… Read More ›
Swim4Good
Our new friend, Rafa!
Where Emily and I train also happens to be one of Spain’s best tennis breeding grounds. The pool is almost always empty and we enjoy it year-round. Incidentally, we’ve noticed that club members don’t know what to make of the… Read More ›
Mau: Our Fearless Leader
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 ›
Patrick’s Car Theory
My 3 teamates are darn good swimmers. They are the product of competitive US Swimming from age 5 to 22. Carrington’s swimming pedigree includes 4-time All American, Princeton University swim team captain, 3-time Ivy League champion and 1 Eastern Championship… Read More ›
Target day for our Gibraltar swim: July 6
A couple of days ago I headed to Tarifa to try to secure a date for our swim across the Strait of Gibraltar. I met up with Rafael Gutierrez, President of the Strait of Gibraltar Swimming Association to submit our… Read More ›
Swimming for Something Bigger Than Me
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 ›
Swimming for Books
This past July when Carrington, Emily and I met for dinner in NYC, we thought the idea of swimming from Europe to Africa was preposterous. I have stood on the southern tip of Spain before and stared at Africa off… Read More ›
Pool-less again, thanks to Hurricane Sandy…
Things were looking up – word on the street was that the new Asphalt Green would open in December, which would mean finally I could properly train for Gibraltar! And in the meantime, I still had the DCC on the… Read More ›
Neda el Mon – 7.5k – Cold Waters
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 ›
The Three Women on the Team
Three out of 25. That’s what we would be. 3 out of 25 American women who’ve ever crossed the Strait of Gibraltar. Only 91 women have crossed since 1928- It’s mind blowing to be a part of this! And, we’re… Read More ›
