All tagged Swimming
Race Photos from Capri Djatiasmoro
With the exception of a few people, everyone I know thinks I’m crazy for swimming in the Hudson River. I really just can’t figure out why. What’s not to like about jumping into a cold, choppy river with a tide table that takes a PhD to figure out?
Road Trip: NYC to LA.For the past 2 months I have been living and training in Santa Monica, California. After spending a few weeks training in Tucson with my coach Cliff English, I came out here in early March to escape the New York winter and spend some quality time in the pool and in the mountains.
pre-workout energyIt's that time of year again: The annual New Year's Swim set. Typically, New Year's swims are a minimum of 10k and are the last big swim set of the year.
Today, our small swim squad, "occupied" lane 2 of the Bard College Aquatic Center for the better part of the afternoon. We only had one small sign (a whiteboard with our set written on it), but had plenty of food and drink (EFS drinks & gels). We set out to do a 10k set, but I got the bright idea to tack on an extra 1000 at around the 6.5k mark. At 8.5k I had second thoughts, but there was no turning back.
This is the set we did, written by Dave Barra:
This article from yesterday's Wall Street Journal starts to get the idea of what it's like to train on the 1 mile stretch between Brighton Beach and Coney Island, but you really have to go there to experience the true culture. Like many parts of Brooklyn, it feels like a foreign country that's only a 45 minute subway ride away from manhattan. Once you find the secret meeting spot on the beach (which is on the CIBBOWS.org website), you'll feel right at home, surrounded by a group of like-minded swimmers.