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• Guest Post – Owen O’Keefe on the close-knit global Open Water Swimming scene

  By Soozmoody on January 6, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  Owen O’Keefe is both the youngest and the fastest Irish swimmer to swim across the English Channel.  At only 16 years of age, he swam the Channel in just 10 hours 19 minutes in September 2009.  In July 2009, he was… Read More ›

• Patrick’s Car Theory

  By mauprieto on December 16, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Guest Post: Local Gibraltarian Albert Yome on his Strait of Gibraltar Swim

  By mauprieto on December 11, 2012 • ( 7 )

  

  On July 11 2012, Albert Yome became the 5th Gibraltarian to successfully swim across his local pool: the Strait of Gibraltar.  Thank you Albert for sharing your story with us. ———————————————————————————- I took up open water swimming about 5 years… Read More ›

• My inspiration: Jen Schumacher

  By Soozmoody on December 11, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  For every crazy endeavor you do, there is always a catalyst behind it.  Something you experience that makes your previously barred brain think: “maybe”.  For me, it was a video.  This summer Mauricio sent me a link of a group… Read More ›

• Target day for our Gibraltar swim: July 6

  By mauprieto on December 7, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Training

  By mauprieto on December 7, 2012 • ( 0 )

  The harder you practice, the luckier you get — Gary Player, South African Golfer

• Salt Water

  By mauprieto on November 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen

• 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 ›

• Cold Water Swimming

  By mauprieto on November 12, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Emily and I are not real cold water swimmers, but we’re exploring that option. We’ve started doing some cold water swims, which for us living in Barcelona, means swimming in 20ºC water this time of the year. Emily recently wrote… Read More ›

• Swimming for Books

  By Soozmoody on November 11, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

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