Swimmer's Daily

  • This looks interesting, maybe USA Swimming exclusive but inspirational when it comes to giving everyone something to strive for. Nice mobile app too, see www.usaswimming.org/deckpass.

    USA Swimming Deck Pass Video from Gregg Goodwin on Vimeo.

  • Doesn’t sound like a two star Michelin restaurant ‘best in the World’ to me :-P

    Just found out I won’t be fed anything to eat until 5pm…starting at 9am. I’m in serious trouble! Gotta do it Haha #Copenhagen #Nomaless than a minute ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry Favorite Retweet ReplyGarrett Weber-Gale
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  • Attempting to become the first person to swim between Cuba and Florida, Diana Nyad was forced to abandon roughly halfway through her journey, struggling with ocean swells, shoulder pain and asthma. Still shell-shocked from Faroese media’s coverage of the World Championships, I’m sure that the gutter press will write “Nyad gives up, only manages to swim 55 miles in 29 hours,” clueless as the are. Good one Diana!

    Read more here on CNN.

  • Sunday evening August 17th at 19:45.10 ET, 61-year-old Diana Nyad started her 103-mile swim from Cuba to Florida, attempting to set a new long distance world record in ocean swimming without a shark cage. You can follow her progress in near-real-time here on CNN, and read more here on diananyad.com.

  • Yeah, it is a bit quiet here. Last news from Pál was that he was lying in the sun somewhere with his girlfriend, listening to Led Zeppelin, reading Dostojevskij and enjoying a gin-and-sprite. I myself am witnessing how the financial crisis is developing in Sweden, forcing them to abandon garbage vans (or whatever :-)

  • A friend of our liaison officer Cora was quick with the camera when our faces popped up on the big screen in the Shanghai 2011 World Championships arena. A moment later the messages came in from Faroe Islands, that they had seen us on Eurosport. Sweet, that must be a billion or more, counting Chinese national TV and all :-)

    Thurid, Rókur og Cora á HM í Shanghai

  • The Speedo Pace Club is commercial yes, but has some really nice technique videos, plus an iPhone app for you to track your training, find pools nearby and do some social thing with your swim friends too. And there are blogs of famous Team USA swimmers. I like.

    Here it is Dana Vollmer world champion in the 100 butterfly demonstrating how to do the Butterfly 3-3-3 drill.

    And here is a drill I must confess I’ve never seen. Must be some kind of ‘competitiveness drill’. Via Jorge Aquado.

  • Keri-Anne Payne says that her goal was to finish in top 10 and qualify for the Olympics, and that the gold medal was just a nice added bonus. Well thanks for that, our guy was no 5 and 4, so that should be OK too :-) Via the17thman.

  • Press play to see the men’s 1500 freestyle final presented in google motion chart. Sun Yang’s and Grant Hackett’s record paces are in lane 4. The chart default state is set to resemble top view of the pool. However, the axis, bubble size and colours and the chart type can be modified. For example if the y-axis is set to “Split” instead of “Lane” the bubbles will trail each other up and down in a virtual ‘pace pool’.