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Little Sleep B4 Big Water

It was not my idea of a good night rest before a race… In the small hillside city of Kaş everything echoes off the mountain. We headed to bed at 10 but the city had a concert on the harbor until midnight with fireworks. It might as well have on the terrace above...

Considerations For A Long OW Swim

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

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...

Sensory Swimming

What is the purpose of drills? Yes, the drills we use will help us build a beautiful and effective stroke. But they are also there, as importantly, to help us build a deep sensitivity to the water and our body sliding through it. We are not a machine, though sometimes...

Precision Over Power

I would like to make an argument for setting technique as a priority in your training. It’s a common theme in my blog. In other sports this would not be necessary, but for some reason swimming is dominated by people who think power is everything. I see signs of...

Measuring Quality in Open-Water

In rock climbing, when trying to climb a route ‘clean’ (no falls, no hanging on the rope) the artist has no room for mistakes. A mis-step, a mis-catch causes a fall and the climber is obligated to start over. The whole climb has to be executed without a...
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