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Book Review: Off the Deep End

I found this book while doing Christmas shopping for my Mom.  In our family it seems like a lot of the literature that we pass around has been about running.  Well I wanted to change that.   So I started searching for a swim novel.  Enter the book “Off the deep end” by W. Hodding Carter.

The [...]

Total Immersion Videos

Came across this site today.  Basically it’s the TI guy explaining how his swimming routines work.  Pretty good for real basic stuff.

http://www.totalimmersion.net/blog/Perpetual-Motion-Freestyle

Back to Back Triathlon

This weekend I’m going to attempt something that usually opnly happens in bike racing (or running relays).  On Saturday Amanda and I will join the swarms of people in the Meech Lake Triathlon.  Sunday, I get to go it alone in an Olympic distance tri just outside of Kingston.

Meech is another funny course length: 1.2K [...]

Nowhere to hide

A few weeks ago, our triathlon club had the tremendous opportunity to take a Swim Power Test from Dr. Genadijus Sokolovas of Global Sport Technology. Dr Sokolovas is the Sport Science Director of USA Swimming Inc. as well as coach to some of the best of the best. (Heard of a guy called Michael Phelps? [...]

World’s Fastest Swimmer to Race in Canada

Michael Phelps

A few weeks ago, we heard that the world’s Fastest Human (on land) is going to race in Canada this summer and now we hear that the World’s Fastest human in the water will do the same!  Michael Phelps has commited to race in Montreal this June.  He will use this race as [...]

Swimming Outdoors in the Canadian Winter..

Man That's Cold!

It’s 9:25 in the morning, my phone alarm has been going off for 25 minutes already and can be found muffled by one or two of my pillows on my bed. I normally am not this tired in the morning, however, forgetting to turn off the heat in my room, I was [...]