Jan
31
2008
Some of you have asked us about our favorite swim workouts. Ruth Kazez has compiled a truly wonderful set of fifty swim workouts. Many of the workouts are short (2000-4000 meters, or 1-2.5 miles). The easiest below are colored green.
ONE
About 1/2 freestyle, the rest drills,swim,&kick Fly, Back, &Breast
TWO
Freestyle 50’s, then swim IM’s and pull&swim Choice
THREE
Free [...]
Tags: swimming, workout
Jan
26
2008
Wanted to share a lovely blog post from a woman who is training to swim the English Channel with type 1 diabetes. Her name is Jan Alexander. The post is about her annual New Years swim; she does one hundred sets of 100s. That is 6 miles of swimming (in a meter pool). I liked [...]
Tags: blog, design, english channel, swimming, Training, workout
Jan
25
2008
I have been off the blog for what seems like forever, and I’ve been quite negligent in keeping you upated on all of our sponsorship happenings.
In mid/late December we finally got everything sorted out with a great sponsor - Gu Sports. We met one of their superstars, Holly Bennett at Interbike, and she’s been [...]
Tags: blog, interbike, logo, Sponsor, sponsors, workout
Jan
22
2008
Some interesting data from NODC. Adam sent this to me, and I thought it would be interesting for everyone.
He was looking at because we’re looking for some nearby open water swims. Trouble is there aren’t any organized events until summer. The water temperatures in the East are sub-50F until April, which is chilly. It [...]
Tags: ocean, open water, open water swimming, philadelphia, water temperature
Jan
18
2008
In December NPR called me and asked me to review the newest IMAX advenure movie. It is a movie called “The Alps”. It has nothing to do with swimming or biking (the primary subjects of this blog), but rather my other hobby — mountain climbing. Below are some links so you can access it in [...]
Tags: blog, logo, movie, mp3, Press, swimming, tyr, web
Jan
16
2008
My four minutes of fame on December 27, 2008. I talk about attempting to be the first American to climb Everest and swim the English Channel. I also talked about overcoming challenges, and people making new years resolutions to incorporate life sports (like swimming) into their lives. The reporter and I had a nice rapore [...]
Tags: english channel, movie, Press, swimming