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• The Final Stretch: #Swim4Good

  By Soozmoody on July 2, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  As I sit here at JFK awaiting to board my flight back to Barcelona, I’m thinking about how the only thing in front of me now is Gibraltar.  Less than a year ago when we decided to do this, I… Read More ›

• My Poolmate Quit

  By emilykunze on June 29, 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  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 ›

• Guest post by Mark, our crew!

  By Soozmoody on June 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Imagine that you are in a boat, guiding three swimmers on a dangerous trek from Europe to Africa, to swim across the challenging, 20km-long Strait of Gibraltar.   So far your group has overcome the unknown waters, pushed through the strong… Read More ›

• Instabeat: a Sports Technology Startup by Swimmers for Swimmers

  By mauprieto on June 11, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  Take a look at runners and cyclists out there and product innovation is immediately visible: lots of gadgets to help you better track your performance and training objectives.  New product development has been slower for swimmers, even though swimming is… Read More ›

• Swim4Good Responds To Some Heat

  By emilykunze on June 8, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• A little training detour

  By emilykunze on June 4, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  As a half-full kind of person, I have convinced myself that a recent 5-day trip to Las Vegas was key to my training. After Antonio Argüelles advised us to put on a few pounds for our open water adventures, I’ve… Read More ›

• The Girl Who Will Teach Tanzania to Read

  By Soozmoody on May 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  I wrote this for Worldreader’s blog on May 14th, but since we’re swimming to raise $100,000 for Worldreader (and we’re 56% of the way there, if you want to see that number grow, please! click here.) I’d love to share this experience… Read More ›

• Swimming Etiquette

  By emilykunze on May 14, 2013 • ( 6 )

  

  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 ›

• Our new friend, Alex!

  By Soozmoody on April 27, 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Before I write about the amazing Alex Song, let me back up a step.  In this blog, we often write about things that matter to swimmers: like what marine wildlife we might encounter in the sea or what goggles we… Read More ›

• Goggle Alert: Aqua Sphere Kaiman Goggles

  By emilykunze on April 24, 2013 • ( 15 )

  

  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 ›

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