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• Cold Water Therapy

  By mauprieto on January 31, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  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 ›

• Survey Results: Are you Planning a Dream Swim?

  By mauprieto on January 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A few weeks ago we launched a quick survey to understand people’s open water dream swims. We gota total of  26 responses. 6 from Ireland, 4 from US, 4 from UK, 3 from Canada, 2 from South Africa, 2 from… Read More ›

• Guest Post: Nuevos Neoprenos OW (Open Water) by Sailfish

  By mauprieto on January 12, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Nuestro amigo Pepe Navarro (General Manager de Sailfish Spain) escribe a continuación un post en el que nos anuncia el próximo lanzamiento de una nueva modalidad de neoprenos que Sailfish lanzará en España en el mes de Febrero. Aprovechamos para… Read More ›

• El Mar de Cortés – Junio 2014

  By mauprieto on January 8, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  (English version of this post is found here) En los últimos meses, Susan y yo nos hemos hecho buenos amigos de Vito Bialla, una persona que vive bajo la premisa de que “cuando vale la pena hacer algo, hay que hacerlo a todo… Read More ›

• Crossing the Sea of Cortés – June 2014

  By mauprieto on January 1, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• Our two Pacific guides

  By Soozmoody on December 28, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  I haven’t swam much in the last month, that’s something I’ll have to change since there’s a New Swim brewing for summer 2014 (hint- it’s taking place in the same country where I write this). Right now, we’re spending the… Read More ›

• “It was magical”

  By Soozmoody on November 20, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Thinking back to a little over a year ago when we decided to brave The Strait of Gibraltar, the only way it made sense was to do it for something bigger than ourselves.  I’m thrilled to report that last week… Read More ›

• Swim4Good nominated for 2013 Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year Award

  By mauprieto on October 29, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• What’s your dream swim challenge? (4 minute survey)

  By mauprieto on October 27, 2013 • ( 1 )

  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 ›

• 17.5 km of Unpredictable Open Water Swimming

  By emilykunze on October 18, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  If I don’t swim, I have nothing to blog about. Three months after my last entry (post Alcatraz), endless drafts about nothing have been written and tossed until now. Last Saturday (Oct 12, 2013 ) Mau and I participated in… Read More ›

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