Swimmer Stories | Mediterra Swim & Run

State Of The Art

by Coach Mat | 17 Jun, 2012

The 7km race today went very well. Full sun, just enough breeze to keep the air pleasant, but no surface chop. The water temp was perfect. I was a little concerned for the first km that I might get uncomfortably chilled at our group’s pace but I was fine as the...

Considerations For A Long OW Swim

by Coach Mat | 16 Jun, 2012

From left- Serdar, myself, and Baha, on our first evening, as we return from a training swim at a beach only accessible by boat taxi. The 7.1 km (or so, with currents and navigation) swim is tomorrow! Baha was not able to get a spot in the race on the registration...

Practice IS Pleasure

by Coach Mat | 14 Jun, 2012

Sitting at lunch today, on our first day of our swim camp in Kaş, while processing the potential of our training process this came out: “Some make the achievment of the goal their only source of pleasure. Practice for them is a mechanical means of getting to...

Success Through Failure

by Coach Mat | 30 May, 2012

TI in Poland Heach Coach Pawel Lewicki and I just finished another successful Total Immersion Coach Certification Camp a couple days ago in Jarocin, Poland. This one was better than ever. We had great students (as usual) and added even better features to the training...

Race-Crashing

by Coach Mat | 5 May, 2012

I had some spontaneous fun today… I snuck into the 1500 meter swim portion of the Antalya Olympic-distance triathlon today! Something I don’t think I could ever get away with back in my homeland. I came down to meet up with some new Antalya swimmer friends...

Swim Coach Yoda

by Coach Mat | 15 Mar, 2012

When Luke Skywalker went looking for the great Jedi Master to learn the way of The Force he didn’t expect to find the shriveled mini-martian Yoda. But what Luke learned from this offensive little back-planet specimen was that it did not matter what kind of body...