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Post swim nutrition – the Golden Window
{Apologies for lack of recent of posts. Please bear with continuing intermittent posting.} One of the sometimes enjoyable aspects of open water swimming and the attendant training is the apparently...
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How waves can interfere with swimmers and cut down on their speeds
This phrase is a consistent Google autocorrect search term that bring people to the site so I thought I would use it directly. I’ve previously written a couple of posts on understanding waves, theory...
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On-the-go homemade oat bar
Okay, I posted a version of this two years, back when the site was mainly text only. I used thought back then the Solo Bar would a good idea because of the all the training and eating I was doing. This...
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HowTo: Swimming in rough water
When talking to different open water swimmers one often find that they may highlight different skills and areas on which they believe it’s important to focus. Since I’ve written a lot about cold, it’s...
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Understanding Rough Water: Force Three
When writing the article on how to swim in rough water, I acknowledged that it’s an area I need to do a bit more about. And the popularity of the post caught me a bit by surprise, as it always …...
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Understanding hypothermia in swimmers – Mild Hypothermia
When all fails and I am at a loss for something to write about, I can write about cold, my favourite subject. Especially in the context of Cork Distance Week coming in two weeks, when we had a few...
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Understanding hypothermia in swimmers – Moderate & Severe Hypothermia
Previous article: Understanding hypothermia in swimmers: Mild hypothermia. Moderate hypothermia is obviously more serious than Mild hypothermia which I covered previously in the first part of this...
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Diagnosing and addressing Moderate Hypothermia in swimmers
In a world of short attention spans, why write one post when I can write two three? :-) I had intended the previous post on Moderate and Severe Hypothermia to include diagnosing hypo in swimmers, and...
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HOWTO: Marathon and Channel Swimming Swimmer and Crew Checklist
This list below was originally based on Freda Streeter’s English Channel checklisk. Edit: I’m updating this occasionally. I’ve also reorganised the PDF by swimmer/crew/feeds for ease of use. After the...
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HOWTO: Sample marathon swim feed schedule (MIMS)
(Apologies to the subscribers who got three unfinished versions of this on Saturday. I was sick for a few days and should have stayed away from the computer, especially after the first mistaken post)....
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HOWTO: A simple open water swimmer’s first aid & medical kit
We put ourselves through torture, pain and injury and that’s a good day. And we do it obviously in and around one of the most dangerous environments on earth. So you need to be somewhat prepared....
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HOWTO: Theraband work for shoulder strengthening
I’ve been picking up pain in my left shoulder for the past couple of weeks again, so I’ve just started doing a little Theraband work, good old swimmer’s shoulder. Therabands are just large elastic...
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HOWTO apply lubrication for distance sea swimming
I think I may have reached a new level of banality with this one. Or have I? Can I get more banal? After all, I’ve previously told you how to wash your swimsuit. And yet when ever I write a … Continue...
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HOWTO: Annual advice for a Christmas or New Year’s swim in cold water for the...
[This is a repeat of a post from last year. And the year before, apologies to the longer term readers here if you feel you are not getting value for money. This post is pretty popular at this time of...
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HOWTO: Open water breathing patterns
The variety and utility of different breathing patterns for open water swimming is a subject of different concerns to pool swimming, as with so much of our side of the swimming sport. I once read an US...
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