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Showing posts with label open water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open water. Show all posts
Aug 1, 2011
Swimming Calorie Demand Calculator
Here is a pretty good calorie calculator for swimmers that Endless Pools provides. The link is: Calorie Counter for Swimming
I have checked this against some a few references from food companies for endurance athletes and it seems to be within the ball park. For my English Channel Swim I plan to feed for about 14 hours and this totals 15,000 calories.
Dec 24, 2010
My Aquatic Christmas Card - 700 Miles, a parody and poem just for you.
The mileage: 700 and counting..
The parody:
Very few know I was 'this close' to becoming an oceanographer, went as far as having dinner Jean-Michel Cousteau.
The Poem:
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, People were jumping on the open water band.
Goggles and swimsuits were selected with care,
In hopes that summer season soon would be there.
Marathon swimmers with big dreams in their heads,
After miles of training, fall fast asleep in their beds.
And pilots with boats and coaches with caps,
Had just settled down for a long look at coastal maps.
When out over the water there arose such a clatter,
Swimmers sprang from the shore to see what was the matter.
Just a boat – but no waves or wind along the coast,
It was conditions that swimmers like the most.
The season continues with coaches standing on docks
Training swimmers in the oceans and in deep, cold lochs.
When, what to their wondering eyes should appear,
But focused swimmers sprinting so dear.
With passion abundant, open water swimmers are ready,
To live up to hopes that are courageously heady.
Spouses knew in a moment it must be the ocean,
More rapid than sharks in a furious motion.
Swimmers whistled and shouted and called out by name;
"Now, Dover! Now, Cook! Now, Zürich and Catalina!
On Rio! On Manhattan! On Rottenest and Messina!
To the top of the podium, to the first to the shore,
Now swim and kick and sprint all the more!
When the waves are high and the water is cold,
Keep true to the course and stay mighty bold.
And to all of you who are the sport’s good friends,
Our deep thanks to you as another year ends.
Poem, original copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
The parody:
Very few know I was 'this close' to becoming an oceanographer, went as far as having dinner Jean-Michel Cousteau.
The Poem:
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land, People were jumping on the open water band.
Goggles and swimsuits were selected with care,
In hopes that summer season soon would be there.
Marathon swimmers with big dreams in their heads,
After miles of training, fall fast asleep in their beds.
And pilots with boats and coaches with caps,
Had just settled down for a long look at coastal maps.
When out over the water there arose such a clatter,
Swimmers sprang from the shore to see what was the matter.
Just a boat – but no waves or wind along the coast,
It was conditions that swimmers like the most.
The season continues with coaches standing on docks
Training swimmers in the oceans and in deep, cold lochs.
When, what to their wondering eyes should appear,
But focused swimmers sprinting so dear.
With passion abundant, open water swimmers are ready,
To live up to hopes that are courageously heady.
Spouses knew in a moment it must be the ocean,
More rapid than sharks in a furious motion.
Swimmers whistled and shouted and called out by name;
"Now, Dover! Now, Cook! Now, Zürich and Catalina!
On Rio! On Manhattan! On Rottenest and Messina!
To the top of the podium, to the first to the shore,
Now swim and kick and sprint all the more!
When the waves are high and the water is cold,
Keep true to the course and stay mighty bold.
And to all of you who are the sport’s good friends,
Our deep thanks to you as another year ends.
Poem, original copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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