“Here we’re taking a look behind the scenes at the 2012 World Swimming Championships (SC) in Istanbul, Turkey. There was quite the marshaling process, to see the full blog head to (after 7pm pacific tonight) pozzswim.ca”
Is that … The first national team version ?!?
http://youtu.be/C6Xe0c-W1LI
That sounded a bit Australian, eh?
http://youtu.be/9jNBvhXlWn8
Many of the biggest names in world swimming will compete at the British Gas International Meet at the John Charles Centre for Sport in Leeds, from 7th — 10th of March 2013. World short course champion Hannah Miley looks ahead to the first international swimming meet on British soil since the Olympics.
Read wivb.com
The weather conditions weren’t particularly appropriate for swimming Sunday, but for many dedicated dippers, it was no problem at all.
The Olcott Polar Bear Swim for Sight took place in Lake Ontario where 573 hearty souls waded into the freezing water to raise money for a good cause.
Swim for Sight Chairman Bill Clark said, “They’re wading in the icy chunky water. They’re laughing and they’re coming up and saying, oh it was great.”
Traditional clothing always rules.
Read the Wired
Cronise got the idea back in 2008 while watching a TV program about Michael Phelps. The coverage claimed that, while training, the Olympic swimmer ate 12,000 calories a day. At the time, Cronise was on a diet of 12,000 calories per week. (He was carrying 209 pounds on his 5’9″ frame and wanted to get back down to 180.) Something didn’t add up. Even if Phelps had an exceptionally high metabolism and swam three hours a day, he still should have turned into a blob. Then it hit Cronise: Phelps was spending hours every day in water, which was sucking heat from his body. He was burning extra calories just to maintain his core temperature of 98.6.
A bit tough to fit in a weekend course from Friday at 18 to Sunday at 17 into an already busy schedule, especially when I sort of have been through it before. But there is always something new to learn, and now there’s only one weekend left :-)
