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OG Attempts the English Channel: August 2010
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OG Attempts the English Channel. A 57 year-old man decides to swim the English Channel solo. This is the log of the attempt. Have You Gained Weight? Common wisdom proclaims that people with a higher body mass index are more impervious to the effects of cold water. In our weight-obsessed society, this topic generates vociferous discussion. A very amusing example is the furor aroused when a gentleman posted a query. According to three studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine. When activated...
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OG Attempts the English Channel: How Old Are You?
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OG Attempts the English Channel. A 57 year-old man decides to swim the English Channel solo. This is the log of the attempt. How Old Are You? Today is my birthday and we're flying to England. If I succeed in the attempt to swim the. I will be fifty-eight years old and the oldest member of the Dolphin Club to do so. When I was in my twenty’s, fifty-eight seemed inconceivably ancient for a human being. Fittingly, my sense of scale was stunted in the other direction as well. John Selmer successfully swam the.
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Swimming Gibraltar: Saturday & Sunday
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This Blog will be about my swim across the Gibraltar Straits in July 2010. Monday, July 12, 2010. I said goodbye to my family in the rental car bus. They were flying back to California after a hot vacation in new Hampshire. I wandered around the airport, bought yet another book and candy bar and found my gate. Hilary had given me something to help me sleep on the flight and some advice about how best to avoid jet lag. The flight was easy, I slept some and arrived in Madrid for the first time. I asked for...
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Vanderbilt Y Masters: January 2009
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NYC Masters Swim Team. Monday, January 26, 2009. Remember the drill with the dolphin kicks and backstroke pull? Well, this guy here does it really well. World-record-breakingly well. Yup, that's right. He competes that way. It's amazing to watch. Here he is breaking the SCM 200 back world record for his age group. Oh, yeah, he broke the 100m and 50m world records too. For more on Chris Stevenson's accomplishments, check out Swimming World Magazine. Monday, January 26, 2009. Saturday, January 24, 2009.
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Swimming Gibraltar: February 2010
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This Blog will be about my swim across the Gibraltar Straits in July 2010. Monday, February 22, 2010. The recommendations seem to generally be: vitamins, more sleep, better nutrition, more variety of training, cross training, and massage! The massage sounds lovely. I need to find someone who will be therapudic as well as pleasant. All good advice, now if I could just get back to it! More soon.I hope! Thursday, February 18, 2010. WEEK 21 (not so good). Sunday, February 14, 2010. Week 22 (cont.). I need to...
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Swimming Gibraltar: April 2010
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This Blog will be about my swim across the Gibraltar Straits in July 2010. Tuesday, April 27, 2010. My friend Karen Rogers swam from the Sea Buoy (12 miles off the San Fransisco Coast back to the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday. She encountered 9' seas and 13 mile an hour winds. I can imagine swimming it, but I can't believe she had a kayak escort the whole way. How did he stay a float? Thursday, April 22, 2010. BIG SWIM is right! First let me say, "It was a blast! From 11 pm tonight to 5 pm tomorrow. And f...
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Swimming Gibraltar: June 2010
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This Blog will be about my swim across the Gibraltar Straits in July 2010. Wednesday, June 30, 2010. I haven't posted in a while. I have been freaking myself out now that my swim is really here. I leave Friday for a week vacation on the East Coast with my family, and then on July 10Th I am off to SPAIN! Well, I may not be as ready as I had envisioned, but my time is now and my adventure starts Friday. I'll keep you posted. Tuesday, June 8, 2010. Sunday, June 6, 2010. Don't you just push on? This is excit...
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why - the Liminophone
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In my seven years of experience as an urban distance-swimmer, my fascination with tidal data was the gateway to developing a sense of place in the water. The New York Harbor and its swollen arteries- the tempestuous East River, the turbid Harlem River, and the grand rolling Hudson- have become the essential element in my imagination of the City. In collaboration with my co-creator, composer-programmer Nick Didkovsky. The Liminophone does exist. We have heard the Harbor singing. 2014 Rachel Golub Music.
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Swimming Gibraltar: The Water is a different Color
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This Blog will be about my swim across the Gibraltar Straits in July 2010. Tuesday, July 13, 2010. The Water is a different Color. The water is a different color here in the Gibraltar Straits. It is not the blue black of San Francisco, or the blue green of Hawaii, or the slate blue of the east coast, or the green blue of the Caribbean it is the blue I tried to paint my bedroom and didn't even know it. The paint card was named "Blueblood". That's the color of the water I was in. July 13, 2010 at 5:23 PM.
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