A Natural Reward For Facing Fear

by | 7 Jun, 2011

I felt it was time to return to my swim route out along the cliffs. I start where the 40m cliffs that hold up the downtown part of the city, meet the Konyaaltı Beach stretch. Instead of heading West where all the bathers play, I headed East along these cliffs, where...

Critical Skills For Mastering Waves

by | 2 Jun, 2011

Here on the Mediterranean Coast off Antalya I have a mild selection of adverse open-water conditions – the coldest the sea gets, in February, is 16 C. By May it is up to 20 C, and by mid-August up to 29 C. The afternoon swells and waves, except during a storm,...

Cross-Cultural Coaching Pt 1- HOPE

by | 31 May, 2011

By invitation I’ve started to work with a local age-group swim club here in Antalya. It’s all in Turkish of course, which places me in a great language learning (stretching) situation. I am excited at this opportunity for many reasons, but most of all I am...

Muscles For Water And Rock

by | 22 May, 2011

I was reminded this weekend that swimming muscles do not translate directly into climbing muscles. Oh, my shoulders and torso can crank for hours, but above grade 7 climbing is all in the fore-arms (at least on the overhanging limestone we have here in Tky). Hours of...

I Love Cool Pools

by | 13 Mar, 2011

I can’t complain that the pool we were giving our Portland OR workshop in was a bit cool for the level 1.0 drills we were working on today. 27 C is perfect for swimming laps, but for our short drills today it was giving us all the chills. A few laps however...

Improving ‘Endurance-Of-Focus”

by | 1 Feb, 2011

I swam 3750m at the Akdeniz University pool. The water was 30 C. Started at 9:00. 10x 50m gentle, ‘check-in’ warm-up 2x this set: 100 fist, 16x 25m FR 100 fist, 8x 50m FR 100 fist, 4x 100m FR Objective was to hold best SPL with fullest catch. Take 4 to 5...
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