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  • 50 of the best swimming blogs

    Jan 23, 2011

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    rokur
    in Swimmer’s Daily

    Guide to Online Schools has chosen Gold Medal Mel to be the swimming blog, and lists 49 others as runners up. This blog is not listed, which is quite OK considering my weak effort here the past year or so.

    http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/library/best-swimming-blogs

  • Nervousness is Energy

    Jan 23, 2011

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    rokur
    in Competition

    A good read about how even the very best swimmers get nervous before important competitions, but manage to channel that energy into best efforts

    Being a little nervous is an advantage, not a disadvantage. This is what nervousness is for – to give you energy. Remember this in your next big race – channel the nerves into your swim, and feel your body unleash the incredible power it has been storing up for the race. Your mind will always provide what your body needs – and one of these things is nervous energy.

    http://swimming.about.com/od/swimmingmindtrainingtips/qt/nervous_energy.htm

  • US Swimmer Fran Crippen dies during race

    Oct 23, 2010

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    rokur
    in Competition

    26-year-old American open water swimmer Fran Crippen lost his life today during the FINA Open Water 10K World Cup event in Dubai. He had been showing signs of slowing down during the third lap of five, possibly because the water was too hot, but it was only after all the other competitors had finished, that teammate Alex Meyer realized that Crippen was missing. Competing swimmers and divers went back to search for him, and found him two hours later unconscious just before the final buoy. Read Lane 9 News.

  • Pereira and Alshammar lead the World Cup

    Oct 23, 2010

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    rokur
    in Competition

    Brazil’s Thiago Pereira and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar lead the World Cup competition by a mile, now after the first 4 of 7 meets, with 88 and 88 point ahead of runners-up 43 and 50 respectively, and $20.000 and $16.500 in earned prize money. See score and prize money tally here on www.scsom.se.

  • Marshall videotapes his races

    Oct 22, 2010

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    rokur
    in Competition

    American backstroker Peter Marshall videotaped his 50 and 100 meter races at the World Cup 2010 event in Beijing, using a GoPro videocamera.

    Here’s the 100 backstroke …

    Beijing Race from Peter Marshall on Vimeo.

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  • Site reactivated

    Oct 22, 2010

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    rokur
    in Swimmer’s Daily

    Sorry, been busy with other projects, and therefore fell behind with this one. Will have to do better ! :-)

  • Severinsen first man to hold breath for 20 minutes

    Apr 1, 2010

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    rokur
    in World Record

    Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new Guinness World Record today, completing a 20 minute, 10 second static breath-hold after breathing pure oxygen for 12 minutes. This was in a shark tank at the Kattegatcentret oceanarium in Greenå, Denmark. Read for instance deeperblue.com

  • 10x1min Sprint As Good As Hours Of Endurance?

    Mar 15, 2010

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    rokur
    in Training

    Researchers at McMaster University in Canada believe that the body can get as much benefit from ten short but intensive bursts of exercise, as it can from hours of moderate traning. HIT or “high intensive interval training” involves running or cycling (or swimming?) at almost maximum effort for a minute and then resting for about a minute before repeating the process around 10 times. (more…)

  • Reuse Your Pool As A Dryland Area

    Mar 12, 2010

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    rokur
    in Training

    Belgium-based Hydrofloors enable you to reuse your pool as a dryland area, by elevating the pool floor vertically, and collapsing the pool steps. The height of the pool may be elevated to any pre-selected water depth, and it even saves energy cost for heating, when fully elevated.

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