Swimmer's Daily

  • The researchers found the bacteria after examining the poop of 10 Boston Marathon runners. To generate energy for itself, Veillonella breaks down lactic acid, which is produced at a higher level when athletes perform particularly strenuous activities. To determine if the bacteria was making a difference, the researchers isolated a strain of it and inserted it into 16 mice, then placed them on a treadmill. The mice with the bacteria in their stomachs were able to run for 13 percent longer than mice who didn’t get the benefit of Veillonella — a small difference, but one that could make a huge difference in an athletic competition in which every little advantage counts.

    Read Engadget

  • A nurse in a 220-mile challenge to swim the length of the River Severn is in hospital after “swallowing sewage”.

    Melissa Compton, who had suffered hypothermia and fatigue during the swim, said the sickness bug was a blip and she was determined to finish.

    The 39-year-old was taken ill in Gloucester on Sunday and is in the city’s hospital.

    She was just 20 miles short of her finish at Severn Beach in the Bristol Channel.

    Read BBC

    Photo by Jim Roberts Gallery

  • For more than a century – the Eleven Cities Race has been part of Dutch sporting folklore. Ice skaters would travel along frozen waterways – over a course that’s nearly two-hundred kilometres long. It hasn’t taken place since the late nineties – with some blaming global warming. Now – one competitor has decided to resurrect it – but in a slightly different form. The BBC’s Tim Allman explains.

    Read for instance The Guardian and Dutch News

  • Interviewing world famous free divers in Bali! A deeper understanding to free diving.
    Deep week is hosted by Australian record holder, Adam Stern and his wife Erin Stern. They bring together free diving instructors from around the world to help and teach nearly 100 learning free divers how to grow within the craft. This deep week took place in Amed, Bali. While attending, I interviewed professional and award winning free divers and instructors from Australia, France, and New Zealand asking them how mental and physical health has played a part in their free diving careers.

  • A man from Mesa has died after he was hit by a boat propeller while swimming in Lake Havasu. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Ismael Aguilar Ortiz, 26, was enjoying a day on the lake Sunday with four passengers.

    Just before 1 p.m., he jumped into the water to cool off. The boat Ortiz had been driving began to drift away because of high winds and waves. Ortiz began to struggle in the water, so one of the boat passengers placed the boat into reverse to get closer to him. It was still in reverse when the woman left the helm and attempted to assist Ortiz out of the water. He was struck by the boat’s moving propeller, and died from his injuries.

    Read Havasu News

    Photo by Shaan Hurley

  • A Wichita, Kansas man died Friday, June 21 while trying to save an unidentified female swimmer at the low head dam on the Elk River, a report from Missouri State Highway Patrol says.

  • Bond University will officially open an expansion to its aquatic centre tomorrow. The upgrade will enhance the already successful competitive program and add to the most advanced swim facility on the Gold Coast.

    https://youtu.be/8XzQZmcRYCE

  • Ocean water exposure changes the human skin microbiome and could increase the likelihood of infection after swimming, according to findings presented at ASM Microbe.

    “Our research demonstrated that ocean water washed off normal bacteria and simultaneously deposited ocean-borne bacteria onto the skin,” Marisa Chattman Nielsen, MS, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, told Infectious Disease News. “These changes persisted for at least 24 hours, and this could present an opportunity for pathogenic organisms to cause infection.”

    Other studies have linked ocean water activities and infection. One study found that surfers are more likely to harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their gut.

    Read Healio

    https://youtu.be/QYBPEDwVc5Y

     

  • We’re very lucky here at GTN to be good friends with the awesome Lucy Charles-Barclay and we got to watch one of her swim sessions whilst in Samorin. Mark is here to review her stroke and gives us tips on where we can learn from the Ironman star!