When Emily, Susan and I swam across the Strait of Gibraltar last summer, our friend Mark crewed for us and made a huge difference in our swim. He wrote a hilarious post about his experience crewing for us. At that point, unbeknown… Read More ›
Training
Cold Water Therapy
I started being intrigued about swimming in cold water (without a wetsuit) in October 2012. And it is not a coincidence that this was the time I started reading Donal Buckley‘s fantastic open water swimming blog Loneswimmer. Donal is an… Read More ›
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 ›
My Poolmate Quit
My Poolmate Pro watch has just given up. At times, more important than my teammates, my Poolmate has been my pal through long pool swims, allowing me to disconnect and check in every half and hour or so to see… Read More ›
Swim4Good Responds To Some Heat
There has been quite a lot of “noise” in cyberspace in response to an etiquette blog I posted a few weeks ago. My post got picked up by some bloggers and there was an infuriated and rabid letter to the Editor of the… Read More ›
Swimming Etiquette
As in most races, at the start people aggressively swim over you, smack you and ram into you. I get claustrophobic and I can’t breathe. At times it has even felt like I am drowning – but I can accept… Read More ›
Goggle Alert: Aqua Sphere Kaiman Goggles
In a pool one stops every couple of minutes between sets while in the open water one stops every 45min-1hour. As a pool swimmer I almost never had a problem with my goggles, and when I did have a problem… Read More ›
A tale of a pool and a sea
On Thursday in NYC, we swam with Carrington at a YMCA in Chelsea and were overwhelmed with the amount of people in our lane. You’d get into a groove and then suddenly there’s a person’s foot in your mouth. It… Read More ›
A Day with the Master
This weekend we had a very special guest at our house in Sitges. I’ll give you a hint: he’s one of the few people in the world to have completed the Triple Crown. If you’re wondering what that is, it’s… Read More ›
Open Water Swimming vs Downhill Skiing
As most youth competitive swimmers, I never learned to ski because ski season is in direct conflict with winter swimming. Growing up in NJ didn’t help either. I never expected (or wanted) to be a skier but I found myself… Read More ›
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