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Marathon swimming: Surviving open water
by Byline to Finish Line
posted July 21, 2010 at 12:46pm
There’s something alluring about open water swimming.
Granted it was, and continues to be, the hardest part of triathlon for me. It’s scary. It’s hard. It’s lonely. And yet there are times out in the open water when swimming is peaceful, free an...more
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Jenny Thompson: still a heroine
by Athletic Women Blog
posted July 9, 2010 at 7:09pm
I've always admired Jenny Thompson. It could probably go without saying that she is one of the greatest female athletes ever. But Thompson—a bright, independent-thinking woman—also helped cultivate a new archetype for the 21st-century athletic woman; ...more
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Race Report: Welland Triathlon
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 28, 2010 at 12:44pm
The smile just wouldn’t leave my face. For a brief moment I had flashes of Chrissie Wellington, the three-time defending Ironman Champion who always seems to be wearing an infectious smile during the most grueling parts of her races.
Of course, I wasn�...more
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Water temperature, wetsuits and adventure
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 25, 2010 at 1:02pm
The email prompted some furious googling. The official prerace report from the Welland Triathlon appeared in my inbox this morning and right at the top of the information was a note on water temperature.
“We expect that once again wetsuits will be opti...more
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The last day of swim practice
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 10, 2010 at 2:10pm
He looked over at me, gently shook his head and shrugged his shoulders.
Swim Master Greg and nothing left to say.
It’s not that he gives up, it’s just that he doesn’t understand why I’m not moving faster through the water.
This, believe it or n...more
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Why milk?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted June 1, 2010 at 8:10pm
The benefits women—female athletes in particular—reap from strength training are well-established. A new study shows, however, that drinking milk after lifting weights enhances and accelerates them.
Thus, as if it needed confirmation, we see now that...more
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For the love of swimming
by Endurance Meg
posted May 27, 2010 at 2:34pm
I knew going into triathlon that, of the three sports, the swim would be my weakest link. And I knew, after training in 2009 for my first Ironman, that I’d have some ground to make up on the bike and run because I wasn’t about to get out of the water ...more
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It’s time to kick off summer swim team
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 21, 2010 at 3:53pm
Summer is right around the corner – literally – with thousands of pools marking the beginning of summer Memorial Day weekend and summer swim teams starting practice. Summer swim team has got to be one of my favorite activities of the year. Some of my ...more
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Catastrophic swims
by Byline to Finish Line
posted May 20, 2010 at 11:49pm
In all honesty, I was hoping for an easy workout. It was my transition day. Technically, transition day is the last day of vacation, but in my world, it’s the bridge day — the day when I’m home from travels, starting to scroll through the work email...more
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Vintage Sports: 1919 Australian Women Swim Team
by Sports Girls Play
posted May 20, 2010 at 6:14pm
Women and girls’ participation in sports has come a LONG way over the years. Check out this photo of the Australian Women’s Swim Team from 1919.
While I am not sure of the actual athletes featured in the photo, it is quite possible that both Fanny ...more
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Win a Copy of Dara Torres' New Book
by anngaff
posted May 18, 2010 at 12:28pm
We have 5 copies of Dara Torres' new book Gold Medal Fitness to give away!
TO WIN:
There are THREE ways to enter and you can enter as MANY times as you want:
Post a comment on this post (below).
Send this tweet.
Post on our Facebook Page tellin...more
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Interview with Dara Torres
by anngaff
posted May 6, 2010 at 12:26am
(Photo credit: Andrea Mead Cross)Dara Torres is busy promoting her new book Gold Medal Fitness, which was just released this week, but she took the time to answer our interview questions in honor of Mother's Day. Torres has won nine Olympic medals, four ...more
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I can no longer feel my arms
by Byline to Finish Line
posted April 13, 2010 at 9:54am
The big red plastic swim paddles were sitting for me at the edge of my lane, just waiting for me to finish my warm up so that I could slip their silicone strap over my wrist and attach them to my wrist.
It had been a while since I was actually able to at...more
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Just keep swimming through it
by Byline to Finish Line
posted April 6, 2010 at 10:39am
The potential for panic began the moment I entered the pool. The lights were terrible low. In fact only a few choice lights were turned on, yet the lifeguard sat at the desk and my fellow swimmers were turning laps.
“Mood lighting?” I asked the lifeg...more
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And cue the clutter in my brain
by Byline to Finish Line
posted March 24, 2010 at 8:32pm
The pool yards were calling today. Swim Master Greg decided that I needed to work on my distance today and handed me a 3100 yard workout that had me exhausted just looking at it.
Right after a short 500-yard warmup came the mother load of the schedule �...more
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University of North Florida cuts swimming and diving
by Title IX Blog
posted March 24, 2010 at 5:45pm
The University of North Florida in Jacksonville, citing financial constraints, conference affiliation, and facilities, announced earlier this week that it will cut its women's swimming and diving team. There was no mention of any plans to add a different ...more
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Thoughts are things: Saving a bad workout
by Byline to Finish Line
posted March 11, 2010 at 10:15am
The first problem was deciding what to eat for dinner. After a large bowl of fresh fruit salad over late afternoon coffee with a friend, my inclination was to eat something light what with my master’s swim practice starting at 8:30 p.m. What sounded goo...more
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Using my power
by Byline to Finish Line
posted March 2, 2010 at 4:55pm
I had suspected what was in store for me at Monday night’s master’s swim workout.
Sadly, I was correct.
It was testing day. Time for Swim Master Greg to calculate my T-time. Part of me dreaded the workout because (a) it would be hard and (b) I alrea...more
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My limiting factor in swimming
by Endurance Meg
posted February 17, 2010 at 12:38pm
Ever since I started training for triathlon, my time in the pool has been cursed. Aside from my incessant hunger when I get out of the water (unless, of course, I end up drinking too much water to have room for food), I get these debilitating calf cramp...more
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Seeing myself as a polar bear
by Byline to Finish Line
posted January 28, 2010 at 4:33pm
Two years ago, swim workouts were painful.
Physically my body was just fine but mentally and emotionally, I was a wreck. Swim workouts quickly unraveled in my mind as doubt and fear would stop my stroke before I even completed one length of the pool. A...more
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