Katie Cuppie an Northern Arizona University freshman is training for what may seem like the impossible. Being visually impaired isn’t something that holds Cuppie back, she plans to swim the distance from Alcatraz to San Francisco Bay.
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Camilla Pedersen communicates with family after 19 days in coma
Read the good news (in Danish) on triathlon.dkEuropean Ironman champion Camilla Pedersen has taken a big step back to life when she Sunday was taken out of the medically induced coma she has been kept in since she on September 3rd crashed on her bike and suffered a fractured skull and bleeding on the brain. She has communicated with her family, but is still very groggy because of the medication. Danish national coach Michael Krüger says that the doctors have now started the recovery phase, which can vary from a few days to a few weeks, where after a long and hard rehabilitation period awaits.
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CC photo #631: Competition warm-up at BCN2013
Just a ‘miniature effect’ photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
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Speedo Advisors | How to utilise swimming as a full body workout by Matt Taylor
“How to utilise swimming as a full body workout. Swimming advice and tips from Speedo Advisor Matt Taylor.”
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Sylle did it! – Fly across the English Channel in 16h41m
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Woman swims 500 yards to toast 100th birthday
Read NewsTimes
Most people likely wouldn’t want to attempt a quarter-mile swim. Then again, Margaret K. Wachs isn’t most people.
On Friday, to celebrate her 100th birthday, Wachs swam 10 laps in the Woodruff Family YMCA pool. That’s 500 yards — the equivalent of five football fields, and more than a quarter mile.
“I feel pretty good,” Wachs said just before she eased herself into the pool at the Orange Avenue facility. “I never was a top swimmer, but as a child I used to swim in the lakes of Vermont where I grew up — on a farm in North Bedford.” […]
As with most people who celebrates a 100th birthday, Wachs has a few health challenges. She’s nearly blind from glaucoma and she’s had foot problems for decades.
But in the water, those shortcomings seem to dissolve, according to Matt Loprino, the aquatics director at the Woodruff YMCA.
“Swimming is a wonderful activity for her,” he said. “There’s no stress on her joints because they’re weightless in the water.”
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CC photo #630: Rollason and Juba at the 2013 Aqua Clinic
Denmark’s national training center coach Shannon Rollason and national head coach Nick Juba on scene at the 2013 Aqua Clinic in Brønshøj, presenting their observations on Danish swimming, clubs and coaches. One main point was that the Danish coaches are skilled and well paid, but move around too much. There are too many clubs switching coaches (and coaches switching clubs), when people need to stick to a plan. Interesting.
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CC photo #629: Remember to always have spare goggles
A scene from the swim meet in Tórshavn, a week ago. I guess that is enough.
(And yes, I forgot my daily photo, yesterday. Will do two today)
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Leisel Jones reveals ‘psychotic pursuit’ of Olympic gold came at cost of mental health
Read Business Standard and The TelegraphFormer Australian Olympic gold-medallist swimmer Leisel Jones has revealed that a ‘psychotic pursuit’ of her gold medal came at the cost of her mental health.
Jones is one name in a list of Australia‘s finest sportspersons suffering mentally in the pursuit of success like Ian Thorpe, Petria Thomas, Libby Trickett, Greg Huegill, Ben Tune and many others.
According to Telegraph.com.au, Jones admitted that her entire self-worth was invested in winning in the lead up to the Beijing Games in 2008, adding that she felt that she could not live if she could not be known as an Olympic gold medallist.
Image courtesy of Sarah Ewart, CC BY-SA 3.0
