Dec 25 2008
Sports Medicine in Open Water Swimming
Wanted to share this presentation with all of you. It is a useful guide to warm and cold open water swimming, written from a medical point of view.
Archive for the tag 'open water swimming'
Dec 14 2008
Piloting Open Water Swimmers
In mountain climbing the unsung heroes are the sherpas/porters. In open water swimming the unsung heroes are the pilot boats.
Typically I’m a swimmer, and pilot boats protect me. Today I had the opportunity to switch roles. I piloted a swim with 25 swimmers. There were 5 other pilot boats including me.
Role of the pilot boat [...]
Jul 17 2008
Day 23 - Channel Day Moments
We swam the channel yesterday. Today is a planned day to rest, recoop and reenergize. We still have 200 more miles to bike to get to Paris — which will start day after tomorrow.
Some stats about our swim:
Dover, UK to Calais, France
14 hours 23 minutes
21 miles
Water temp 60F
In terms of nutrition… We [...]
Apr 23 2008
Swimming the Schuylkill River
He who wants to find the sea should take a river for his guide.
We are training in the Schuylkill River! We’ve done it 3 of last 4 days. Today we swam for 80 minutes. And after doing those miles we plan to swim more and more. Here’s why we love it…
It’s cold. Cold [...]
Feb 24 2008
You’re Doing What??
In every athletic endeavor that I’ve ever trained for, I’ve always hit that point in training where motivation drops off and every lap or every mile seems like an eternity. You know what I’m talking about, it’s the one where you spend the entire workout thinking “Is this almost over?” This is what [...]
Jan 22 2008
Eastern Water Temperatures in 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 [...]
