Swimmer's Daily

  • Juana’s Pagoda hosts its 2nd annual Open Water Swim in Santa Rosa Sound Sunday to benefit the Navarre High School swim team.

  • For a coalition of dedicated fans of Sarah Thomas at Denver International Airport on Sunday, the waiting was the hardest part.

  • “I’ve been a competitive open water swimmer in the Bay Area for over 40 years and have been doing this event since 1980,” said Sean Kelly, a Marine, the son of a Marine and a well-known Semper Fi Fund Community Athlete. “When they decided to make it an official Team Semper Fi event, I was asked to be the Captain and Coach for the team. Talk about a dream assignment!”

    “From the beginning the response from the athletes was super enthusiastic,” Sean continued. “They were excited about being part of the team and excited about taking on this swimming challenge with fellow veterans.”

    See Semper Fi Fund

  • Swimming is an excellent exercise for the mind and body. It’s also one of the most popular activities during the summer months. But, it’s not always the best for your skin and hair! Swimming in a chlorine-treated pool exposes your body to many chemicals and irritants. For this reason, you should know how to take care of your skin.

    Below are skincare tips to enhance your swimming experience.

    1. A sunscreen goes a long way!

    A sunscreen forms a protective layer on your skin, hindering excessive drying and tanning due to chlorine. It also prevents sun damage and premature aging. Therefore, investing in a pre-swimming lotion is an excellent idea for such creams are formulated to obstruct chlorine while preserving your skin’s moisture. Apply the products every 15 minutes before getting into the pool; this gives your skin ample time to absorb the sunblock and form a thick barrier.

    1. Don’t forget a quick shower

    A quick shower before going into the pool is a must, especially when swimming in a public pool. While taking a shower before taking a dip might sound unnecessary, it prevents the pond water from becoming too dirty. A shower is also crucial in hydrating your skin cells; hence hindering them from absorbing the pool water. This way, your sunblock barrier is strengthened.

    3. Stay hydrated

    By drinking enough water, your skin stays hydrated. Therefore, stay hydrated throughout the day and keep on sipping more water as you swim. If you don’t drink enough water, your skin will end up absorbing the pool water due to lack of moisture. Remember your skin is like a sponge, as long as it’s moisturized, it can’t absorb extra amounts of chlorine.

    Post swimming tips

    1. Take a warm bath

    Take a warm shower immediately after getting out of the swimming pool. By so doing, you open up your skin pores to allow for thorough cleaning. Also, use anti-chlorine soap to cleanse your skin and body and remember to wash the hair thoroughly. Finish off by rinsing your entire body with cold water; this tightens your pores and locks in moisture.

    2. Apply some talc

    Some little talc goes along way. By smearing talc to some parts of your body, you allow your body to dry off faster. Talc also helps in the absorption of traces of residual chlorine that might be present on your skin. But, ensure that you don’t use talc on your body parts that don’t require moisturizing.

    3. Moisturize

    Moisturizing is an essential part of your skincare routine. Invest in a quality moisturizer and use it often; this ensures that your skin stays hydrated.

    4. Care for the swimwear

    Keeping your swimwear clean is a sure way of keeping your skin healthy. Besides, chlorine can damage the swimsuit by fading its color. Add a tablespoonful of vinegar to the washing water, to neutralize the smell of chlorine and maintain the fabric color. For a pleasant swimming experience, acquire extra pairs of stylish tankinis and save yourself the stress.

    5. Take some herbal tea

    Herbal teas are vital in relieving stress due to oxidative damage to the skin. They also furnish your skin with antioxidants which are necessary for neutralizing free radicals.  Some of the best herbal teas are; Moringa, Chamomile, Ginger.

    Take home

    For all swimmers, proper skincare begins way before you get into the pool and continues even after you step out of the water. So, have your bottle of water, sunscreen, moisturizer, and talc ready for this ensures a better swimming experience. Again, remember to take care of your swimsuit for this ensures a healthier skin.

    Guest post by Heman Thuranira

     

  • Flames broke out a Brockton home on Elmwood Ave. early Monday morning. But thanks to a quick-thinking homeowner, the bulk of the work was done before firefighters arrived.

    Jean Etienne was able to use water from his outdoor swimming pool to knock down the majority of the fire in the kitchen.

    “It’s fortunate, I went directly to the kitchen and I see fire everywhere,” Etienne said. “The ceiling was burning.”

    He used a 5-gallon bucket and ran back and forth to the pool.

    “I try all the time to keep my calm,” Etienne said.

    He said he wasn’t just going to stand there and watch the house burn down.

    See CBS Boston

  • We’re learning new details from Chanel Miller about the night she was sexually assaulted by Stanford student Brock Turner.

    She appeared on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” to talk about the party she attended in 2015. Warning: her interview is, at times, graphic.

    Miller admits she got drunk and blacked out. She woke up in a hospital.

    Miller says she was kept in the dark about what happened that night, including how two Swedish grad students witnessed the assault and held Turner down until police arrived.

    She didn’t know the details of the investigation until she read a news article online.

    See ABC7 and USA Today

  • On September 19th 1988, Adrian Moorhouse put the pain of LA 1984 behind him to win Olympic 100m breaststroke gold by the narrowest of margins in Seoul – only one hundredth of a second!

  • Russia’s doping troubles are nowhere near over. After a head-snapping day of developments from Moscow to Tokyo to the Middle East, the country has new fears that its status at next year’s Olympics could be in jeopardy — and no doubt about where it stands in track and field.

    “It just reinforces everything,” Rune Andersen, the head of track’s task force on Russian doping, said Monday in Qatar after recommending that the country’s federation remain barred during this week’s world championships.

    Earlier Monday, the World Anti-Doping Agency had announced during its meeting in Tokyo that it was giving Russia three weeks to explain what looked like manipulation of critical data from its Moscow lab, which was not matching up with data WADA received from a whistleblower who helped break open the Russian doping scandal in 2016.

    The lab data was key to prosecuting cases stemming from Russia’s intricate plot to give its athletes performance enhancers in preparation for the 2014 Sochi Olympics and other big events, while preventing them from getting caught.

    Andersen’s report for track’s governing body, the IAAF, offered a detailed accounting of the data case that WADA had made public earlier. It said the discrepancies “are not random. In many cases, they relate to positive findings that appear” in the database provided by the whistleblower.

    Meanwhile, in Moscow, Russian officials took a dreary view of the developments, which could lead to the country’s anti-doping agency being suspended again, some 12 months after reinstatement upon delivering the lab data to WADA.

    “The situation is very serious,” Russian Olympic Committee president Stanislav Pozdnyakov said.

    Read AP

  • A Louisiana man has drowned after proposing to his girlfriend underwater while the couple was vacationing in Tanzania.

    Steven Weber and Kenesha Antoine were staying in Pemba Island, CNN affiliate WBRZ reports, in a wooden cabin with a bedroom submerged in the ocean off the east coast of Africa.

    Weber proposed Thursday by swimming underwater and holding a handwritten note against the bedroom windows, according to a video Antoine posted Friday on Facebook, before presenting a ring.

    The note, which Weber had placed inside a transparent plastic bag, read, “I can’t hold my breath long enough to tell you everything I love about you. BUT…Everything I love about you I love more EVERY DAY!

    “Will you please be my WIFE,” the note continued. “Marry me???”

    But Weber failed to resurface, Antoine said in a subsequent Facebook post. “You never emerged from those depths, so you never got to hear my answer, ‘Yes! Yes! A million times, yes, I will marry you!!’ ” she wrote.

    See CNN