Topics specifically related to open-water swimming
Want to become a faster swimmer and enjoy swimming more? Start by figuring out how to swim effectively in the water rather than immediately trying to build up your training volume. The reason that it’s more important to focus on how you swim rather than how far or how hard you swim…
One of my clients sent me a link to an article in Triathlon Competitor magazine called Do you know your Ape Index? The article talks about how arm length can affect your cadence — short arms yields a higher cadence and long arms yields a lower cadence. He asked me if…
If you are blind like me, swimming has always been a little challenging because I couldn’t see the pace clock, other swimmers, the practice on the board. Since I’ve started to do more stuff in open water with my team in the last 10 years, it’s…well…game over out there. The…
We had a great turnout for the Big Shoulders 2.5 and 5K open water swim this past Saturday September 12th. In the 5K division, we had 12 swimmers compete and we had 4 swimmers place in the top 50 overall — Tim Carlson (13, 1:01.02), Justin Chiles (18, 1:02.03), Rob…
One of the most common comments we get from our clients who know how to swim but just can’t turn it into a fitness activity is: “I get so out of breath! I can run a marathon, but I can’t do two lengths of the pool.” The swimming literature commonly…
I am in Ft. Lauderdale, FL this week for the 2009 American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) convention. I saw a thought-provoking talk yesterday by Melon Dash of the Miracle Swimming Institute. She was speaking on the absolute necessity of adult swimming lessons to overcome adults’ fear of the water and…
There were a bunch of races last weekend that CBD members took part in. Congrats to all racers! Pleasant Prairie Open Water Challenge — Rob Iglinski (45:37) took 1st in 35&Under, 2 mile open non-wetsuite division. Erin Harvego (1:01.09) took 3rd in the 36&over, 2 mile open wetsuit division. Kim…
There are a bunch of great things about doing lake swims: swimming outside, swimming for long distances, enjoying the cool water to beat the heat. The problem with lake swims is that we lose the walls and the pace clock that help us determine whether we are holding pace and…
