“Part 1 of 4: Bruce Gemmell, the head coach at Nation’s Capital Swim Club, talks about training Katie Ledecky for her successful swims at the 2013 world championships. From the 2013 American Swim Coaches Association’s world clinic.”
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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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European 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.
Just a ‘miniature effect’ photo from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain.
“How to utilise swimming as a full body workout. Swimming advice and tips from Speedo Advisor Matt Taylor.”
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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.”
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.
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)
