Archive for January, 2008

Jan 31 2008

Fifty Swim Workouts

Published by neal under Training

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 [...]

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Jan 26 2008

Swim workout: One hundred 100s

Published by neal under Training

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 [...]

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Jan 25 2008

GU-ey Goodness

Published by adam under Sponsor

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 [...]

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Jan 22 2008

Eastern Water Temperatures in 2008

Published by neal under Training

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 [...]

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Jan 18 2008

Neal on NPR - 1/18/2008

Published by neal under Press

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 [...]

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Jan 16 2008

Neal on NBC News - 12/27/2007

Published by neal under Press

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 [...]

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