Health | Mediterra Swim & Run

Under-Estimating 10 km Recovery

by Coach Mat | 13 Jul, 2011

I am not a marathon runner. I’ve heard though that it takes some time to recover properly from that kind of running. Instead I’ve become a marathon swimmer these past couple years- by the definition of swimming 5km or longer. I took it for granted being...

Swim To Escape, or Swim To Face It?

by Coach Mat | 3 May, 2011

I headed to the Med this morning to release my internalized stress in the cool sea water. I have been feeling some stress the last couple days. All that tensive unchanneled energy collects in my chest just below the heart and I desperately needed to get it flushed...

Swimming With Yeast

by Coach Mat | 22 Feb, 2011

Well, not exactly swimming WITH yeast, but swimming while candida yeast is infesting the internal systems of my body. Yuk. I bet it started back in 2002 when we traveled to Africa the second and final time on the adoption adventure for our twin daughters. The first...

When To Rest, When To Swim

by Coach Mat | 26 Aug, 2010

Oh, the weather have been amazing- dry heat! About 105F/40C today. The sea was like glass a couple days ago when I drove by and today it was flat, but rippled as if someone ran rough hairbrush over the surface. There was a hot, dry breeze blowing out to sea from the...

Going A Little Bit Longer

by Coach Mat | 11 Jul, 2010

I swam 95 minutes straight today-somewhere around 5 to 6 km. A new personal time/distance milestone for continuous OW swimming. I started at about 8:00am. The sea was nearly glass smooth- we call it ‘flat as a bedsheet’ in Turkish. The weather was sunny,...