Archive for the tag 'web'

Sep 19 2008

Designing Our Logo

Published by neal under Misc.

Hey sports fans. Not sure if you noticed, but we have a logo now. It’s at the top of the blog. We made the logo in Photoshop. We wanted a logo to symbolize the globe trotting journey that we call 10 Degrees Latitude. We are still working it; and you can expect to see new [...]

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Aug 03 2008

Photos from 10 Degrees Europe

Published by Team under Event

We did it man, and here are the photographs to show you our journey.

A shout-out to Best Western, especially Marie Yarroll, Senior Manager of Public Relations. Best Western sponsored 10 Degrees Latitude and asked Neal to contribute content for their newly launched blog called “You Must Be Trippin”. The latest one is Healthy Continental Breakfasting. [...]

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Jul 12 2008

Day 18 – 5th training swim in Dover

Published by neal under Misc.

Met at Dover Harbor today for the regular weekend CS&PF Swim. There were heaps of swimmers (at least 50) there at 9AM. Adam and I swam for 1 hour in the harbor just to loosen up. We were joined by our families, and after the swim the kids decided to stick their feet in the [...]

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Jul 04 2008

Day 10 – 5 Tips to ensure your bike never slows you down

Published by Team under Event, Training

Today is a scheduled rest day in Nottingham.  We’ve got beautiful weather here and it’s a great little town to enjoy.  Since we don’t have any ride stories from today, I thought I’d share a short article that I came across in Outside Magazine.  Here is a link to the web version of the article.  [...]

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Apr 28 2008

English Channel temps rise above 50F, hurray!

Published by neal under Logistics

The water temp in the English Channel has begun to rise above 50F. This is the natural spring-time tendency of the channel and it’s great news for us swimmers. NOAA shows us water temps, conditions and neat little graphs that I wish had a longer time-scale.

Wind Direction (WDIR):
SSW ( 210 deg true )

Wind Speed (WSPD):
15.9 [...]

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Apr 23 2008

Swimming the Schuylkill River

Published by neal under Training

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 [...]

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