Category: Fun
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The Burien 2012 Polar Bear Plunge from a swimmer’s POV
Three Tree Point, Burien, Washington. January 1st, 2012. Air temperature: 53°F (11.7°C). Water temperature: Colder :-) Via b-townblog.com
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Ellen Gandy the Brit that lives farthest away from the London 2012 Olympic Park
The Independent has this fun article today called “The long, short and tall of Britain’s Olympic hopefuls“, lining up interesting ‘records’ of British athletes training for the London 2012 Olympics, like 18-year-old featherweight weightlifting champion Hannah Powell being the shortest and lightest with her 4 ft 9 in (144 cm) height and 7 stone (44.4 kg) weight ……
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The other Mayan calendar predicts no London 2012 medals for Phelps
Alexandra Petri writes here on the Washington Post about an Ancient Mayan day-planner that she has unearthed, instructing her “to sacrifice a toothed hen or an Iowan who had never had his hand shaken by a political candidate. After some difficulty I located the hen.” Well, it mentions a lot of other predictions for 2012…
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My New Year’s resolution: One picture released every day
As of today, I’ll be releasing one swim photo each day, at least for a year, under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. And maybe more, if it turns out to be a positive experience. First photo is the one that I use as header image here on Swimmer’s Daily, of media people diving…
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More pushup fun from Vágur
This time Høgni Simonsen and Pál Joensen’s kid brother Eyðbjørn Joensen.
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Amp your workout with FIT Radio
FIT Radio is a web and mobile application that streams DJ-engineered music of all genres designed to amp your workout. A Pandora for gym rats with several channels to choose from, such as Top 40, Electronic and Dub Step. Free streaming app available for iOS and Android. Finally a way to get rid of that…
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Christmas came early, a gift from the Big River Man himself
So I got in contact with Strel Swimming after blogging about their exciting swimming holiday trips in Slovenia and Croatia, and it turns out that ‘Big River Man‘ Martin Strel’s son Borut is also an IT geek professional. Go visit their state-of-the-art webpage www.strel-swimming.com, and notice that there is a special offer on their Slovenian…