Dogs and their owners competed in a combined swimming and running race on the Croatian island of Rab. https://youtu.be/Wtgndw3uFO0
Author: rokur
rokur
Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)
Many public pools have already closed for the season, but temperatures in the 90s had people heading to local ponds. https://youtu.be/O9on01j3Fok
Jack is a champion swimmer and all round great guy. We love having him as part of Autism Swim’s community. https://youtu.be/T5qTkTrm1bs
Record-breaking endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh has revealed he only saw “a few fish†during his 49-day swim of the English Channel, with plastic plaguing every beach he saw from Land’s End to Dover https://youtu.be/DslQH-_2m-M https://youtu.be/dj3XXbs1vC8
New goggles ‘usually’ have an anti-fog coating inside the lenses. Who knew? When cleaning their goggles, swimmers often rub the inside of their goggles with their finger or a towel to clean them to help prevent fogging. This de-fogging method may actually do more damage than anything to the anti-fog coating. What should you do instead? -Try your best to be gentle with your goggle lenses, especially on the inside. Dirt, oil, sand and sunscreen from your fingers and cloths damage the lenses and degrade visibility. This is why you often can’t see very well out of your goggles after…
A 12-year-old Baltimore girl drowned Tuesday at Sandy Point State Park after being pulled under by a current in a “no swimming†area, Maryland Natural Resources Police said Wednesday. Rescue crews found Kaniya Kenly’s body about 40 yards off shore at about 11 p.m., after nearly five hours of searching. At a news conference Wednesday morning at the park’s marina, Capt. Brian Rathgeb of the Maryland Natural Resources Police said the agency got a call about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday for a potential drowning. At some point, he said, four children were left alone by the beach. The children, ages 11 to…
Former Olympic swimmer and two-time gold medalist Klete Keller used the app Wag to find a dogsitter, and very much regretted it when he came home to find two shirtless men on his couch with “personal lubricant†and a camera. Keller spoke with Colorado Springs–based Fox 21 News and described the scene when he arrived home. His house stunk; there were the aforementioned shirtless guys; there were “bodily fluids†on his couch; and the dogsitter was taking a shower. Oh, and his dog Jimbo was locked in a room, sitting in his own piss. Fox 21 actually talked to the dogsitter, who…
The 48-year-old finished the 560km (348 mile) gruelling swim from Land’s End in Cornwall to Dover in Kent in 49 days. He was greeted at Shakespeare Beach by Environment Secretary Michael Gove. The environmental campaigner and UN Patron of the Oceans began the challenge on 12 July, swimming 10 to 20km (six to 12 miles) every day. Mr Pugh, from Plymouth, Devon, said he felt “relieved and exhilarated”. “It’s been very, very long, we’ve been going for 49 days and I’m exhausted, physically exhausted, mentally exhausted, so delighted to be here.” He is estimated to have made 500,000 to 750,000…
In a world of increasing pressures, it’s easy to let problems manifest. German triathlete Liz Kellerer takes us to the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands to show us how wild swimming can help lead to both a healthy body and mind. https://youtu.be/F7aiNFnOjKs
‘Marko Pejcinoski, the youngest swimmer who swam the Lake Ohrid (Sveti Naum – City port).’ https://youtu.be/lLTW5Wem3-s