Month: October 2011
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Another good day in Faroese swimming
Today it is confirmed that a Danish TV crew will join us at the World Cup leg in Stockholm, follow Pál there and then come back with us to the Faroe Islands, to film how he lives and trains in his hometown Vágur. He’s had the competing channel TV2 visit him in Vágur before, but…
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Garmin Forerunner 910XT tracks your run and details your swim
Wow, the newest Garmin Forerunner 910XT is not only a runner’s GPS watch like my old, trusty Forerunner 305, but now also offers swim metrics like distance, stroke identification, stroke count and your ‘SWOLF’ score (swim-golf, an estimation of your swimming efficiency by adding your time with your strokes, see for instance this video). Water…
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Moving into the upper echelon
These past few weeks have been quite humbling for us in Faroese swimming, with people acknowledging the little or lot we have managed to do with miniscule resources. Pál was invited to join the Europe team in the “Duel in the Pool” against USA in December, we had 4 young swimmers (and a coach) doing…
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Face Your Fears – Water
Someone has peed too much in that pool Face Your Fears – Water from Changing Faces on Vimeo.
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The ‘dictatorial’ nature of swimming is to blame for Monk’s lie ?
Wow, swimming commentator and retired Australian Olympic swimmer Nicole Livingstone blames the “dictatorial” nature of our sport for the elaborate lie that Kenrick Monk came up with on Wednesday, saying he was a victim of a hit-an-run accident when all that happened was that he broke his arm from falling of a skateboard. “Having been…
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Danish Olympians hope to find gold in Colorado
For the third time in less than two years, Danish national coach Paulus Wildeboer has brought his team of European swimmers back to the high elevation water of the Lake County Aquatics Center in Leadville, Colorado. “The are only pools in the world at this elevation. It’s very rare to find something like that,” Wildeboer…
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Did a seal save Cohen from being killed by the great white ?
British resident Michael Cohen was attacked within seconds of plunging into the water at Fish Hoek near Cape Town last Thursday, by a great white that ripped a good part of his right leg off and badly mauled this left foot. Two quick-thinking pensioners saved him by tying a makeshift tourniquet made of the leg…