According to his web site Ryan Lochte is ‘considered by many to be the best swimmer in the world.’ If Michael Phelps hadn’t come out of retirement, that might well be true . . . though fans of Katie Ledecky…
Today is my 65th birthday. Werner and Birgit Goldbaum of Germany made this cake in my honor and sent it, saying they were ‘pressing our thumbs to your heart.’ A German expression for warmest wishes.
Seeing the cake …
In the final paragraph of last week’s post I mentioned that I would swim the 1650y (1500m) freestyle in the New England Championships the next day. How did it go? Better than I imagined possible: When I hit the touch …
Dear Friends
In the past 10 years I’ve written many times on “Injury as Opportunity.” This resulted from experiences where injury or illness required me to slow down in many ways. My belief in the healing powers of water and …
On Feb 15, the article A Swimming Hero Relearns How to Swim appeared in the Wall Street Journal. It featured Marilyn Bell DiLascio and Paul Lurie–78 and 98 ‘years young’ (this phrase fits them if it fits anyone, as you …
This guest post was contributed by Sampath P.B. from Hyderabad India who first emailed me in early December. I saw remarkable similarities between Sampath’s story and Amir Khan’s guest post From Swimming Nightmare to Swimming Dream which I’d published just …
Ten years ago, several months before my 55th birthday, I set a group of BHAGs or Big Hairy Audacious Goals. The term comes from the book Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, who studied businesses that …
Two days ago I brought two students, Dmitry and Sergey, to Bard College to guide them through a practice that was 100% focused on increasing efficiency via improving technique. They had just completed two days of instruction–four 90-minute sessions in …
Ten days ago, I received an email notification to moderate a new comment on my recent blog “Guaranteed” Speed: Swim Faster the Smart Way While I receive such notifications every day, something about this one caught my attention: The commenter …
On October 19 I swam from Corsica to Sardinia–covering 15.5K (9.6 miles) in 4 hours 31 minutes–with Tommi Patilla and Lennart Larsson. This is the story of that swim.
Some swim for exercise, others for a sense of accomplishment or …