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• Let me be clear: I venerate the Sea of Cortez

  By Soozmoody on May 23, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In less than two weeks, I’ll be heading down to La Paz, Baja California, where I’ll meet up with 5 other swimmers who will attempt a relay crossing of the Sea of Cortez.  Yesterday, two of the swimmers and I… Read More ›

• Guest Post: ESTRECHO 2014 – desde donde yo lo ví

  By mauprieto on May 1, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  El 18 de abril 2014, cuatro nadadores de Barcelona (y de Marnaton) – Gabriel Navarro, Fernando Sanahuja, Alex Gorina y David Galceran – salieron nadando desde Tarifa hacia la costa de Marruecos para cumplir su sueño de cruzar el estrecho de Gibraltar…. Read More ›

• Swim4Good Just Got a Lot Bigger

  By mauprieto on April 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Swim4Good was launched on August 2012 by Emily Kunze, Susan Moody and myself with the objective of swimming across the Strait of Gibraltar and raising $100.000 for Worldreader.  On July 11 2013, we reached our goal of swimming across the Strait… Read More ›

• Guest post: From Crewing to Swimming the Strait of Gibraltar

  By mauprieto on April 5, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• “No drama” and other pieces of good advice for our upcoming Sea of Cortez Swim

  By Soozmoody on March 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This morning I had the pleasure of swimming from Tiburon to The Golden Gate Bridge with my SF friends from Night Train and my teammate on our upcoming Sea of Cortez Swim, Antonio Arguelles, who flew in from Mexico. The… Read More ›

• Poll results: Coldest water 1 hour swim and peeing in the pool

  By mauprieto on March 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  65 swimmers from 13 countries responded our most recent poll.  Distribution by country: US: 25 responses Spain: 16 UK: 9 Ireland: 4 Australia: 3 Israel, New Zealand, Gibraltar, Portugal, Switzerland, Ukraine, Estonia, Mexico: 1 1. What is the coldest water… Read More ›

• Quick poll on two independent matters: cold water and peeing

  By mauprieto on March 13, 2014 • ( 1 )

  In this month’s quick poll, we are interested in understanding two things: 1. The coldest temperature water you’ve swum at least for 1 hour (no wetsuit). 2. Whether you pee in your pool workouts or not.  I’m skeptical about the… Read More ›

• Meet Richard – Sueño88 swimmer and physician

  By mauprieto on February 20, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  When Vito suggested the idea of swimming across the Sea of Cortez in a 6 swimmer relay, I immediately thought that Richard would be a great fit.  First, he was a great supporter of our Gibraltar swim last year and is… Read More ›

• We’re not part of their food chain

  By Soozmoody on February 18, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Since July 11th, when we swam the Strait of Gibraltar, a lot has happened in my life–I moved to the US with my two daughters for the school year. They are in their first English-speaking school and we’re living in… Read More ›

• Swim4Good Meetup: Cala del Castell (2 Feb 2014)

  By mauprieto on February 3, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Este domingo tuvimos un excelente día de natación en la Costa Brava.  11 amigos salimos desde la Cala del Castell en dirección a Cala Estreta.  El plan era llegar a Cala Estreta y regresar a Cala del Castell, un recorrido… Read More ›

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