swim records and other fun stuff
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TriSooner posted 8 weeks ago.
Supposedly more people have been to the top of Everest than have swum the English Channel. Also, I think some guy swam both the Mississippi and Nile rivers.
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CadenceGuy posted 8 weeks ago.
I swam 75 meters last week in the pool when the power was out before the director told us we werent aloud to swim till the power came back on, does that count for anything?
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jrs961 posted 8 weeks ago.
Training with 'drag' or other resistance is really pretty common in swimming... Many swimmers train in drag suits, and there are many varieties of the resistance drill you describe above - including swimming against the resistance of a stretch cord, or the one that I still have nightmares over - swimming harnessed to a 5 gallon bucket.
While these drills definitely have benefits, I am guessing that they are not worth the money for the average triathlete.
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StephenPDennis posted 8 weeks ago.
This is a cool one - http://wcbstv.com/topstories/dominican.world.record.2.246696.html
I remember reading about it when it happened, some of my friends went a top the Brooklyn Bridge and watched him.
As a funny side note to swimming in the Manhattan waters at last years New York Triathlon they actually had to have profession psychiatrists at the swim start to help coach people through diving into the Hudson River. I can't imagine swimming .5k in there, let alone 30 miles!
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Ironmom posted 8 weeks ago.
My college swim coach used to make us swim with the standard-issue grey athletic deparment sweat pants and shirts on. I could still almost throw up just looking at a grey sweatshirt, LOL!
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max ping posted 8 weeks ago.
lol cadence guy.
man i don't think the Nile is a place to swim. Don't they have croc's in there, as in the Nile Crocodile???
i have images of the old tarzan movies with a bunch of sunning croc's taking off a beach.
hey they could inspire faster swim splits
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cayman posted 8 weeks ago.
Just hours after his high school graduation and an all-night drive to Maryland, an 18-year-old from Clemmons, N.C., beat more than 600 swimmers to win the 17th annual Great Chesapeake 4.4 mile Bay Swim. Kevin Jones finished 1 hour 30 minutes and 26 seconds after entering the water.
It might not be a record, but that's pretty f'in awesome--shorter than my IMWI swim!
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Anton posted 8 weeks ago.
Everest summits: 2249 (most of them up "The old Milk run." (Khumbu,Lhotse,South Col, South Ridge) Deaths in the attempt 186. (Thanks to Everesthistory.com)
Channel swims: 972. Double crossings: 25. Triple crossings: 3 (Yup, thats over, back, over again without stopping.) Unknown number of attempts as many unqualified and unofficial attempts are made yearly. Unknown number of Deaths. Although, every year several people wash up in Belgium or France or the Netherlands in swim gear.
Allison Streeter has done the swim 43 times.
A guy named Strel (German) holds the record for the longest swim without stopping. He swam the Danube's 312 miles in 84 hours (Man! I can't even imagine staying awake that long!)
He also swam the Mississippi in 68 days (but that was with a nightly break.)
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
My Blog: http://anton.trifuel.net
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TriSooner posted 8 weeks ago.
Anton wrote:
Everest summits: 2249
Channel swims: 972.
Thanks for looking all that up. I just wasn't motivated last night to back up my assertions. Good work. People really just randomly wash up in Belgium? That swim is intriguing . . . No kidding re: the Danube swim. I care barely drive my car that far without falling asleep.
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Anton posted 8 weeks ago.
I'm off in the summer and outside of training...have lots of spare time! Really...been a climber for ...40 years so I keep up with that kind of thing...one of my mentors in my college years was the late Barry Bishop who summited in '63.(He was on the board of an outdoor school I worked at.)
Yeah...imagine a summer morning strolling the beach near Oostende (With a Flemish accent)..."Luke Sveetie ist an udder shannel svimmer!"
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?" - Vincent Van Gogh
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tri-ac posted 8 weeks ago.
we had a guy swim the length of the Columbia River to raise awareness of water quality in the watershed.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1310820
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beads1985 posted 8 weeks ago.
I know they didn't stop for pee breaks but what about poop breaks?
''Nothing to it, but to do it''
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KevDaddy posted 8 weeks ago.
Swimming the Catalina Channel b/w Los Angeles and Santa Catalina Island. Its been done officially 140 times (Allison Streeter, who someone above mentioned had crossed the English Channel 43 times had swum this channel as well).
The fastest swim is 7:15, the oldest swimmer was 62, and the youngest was 12 (!).
The "Basic Advice" section seemed pretty interesting of what you would want to consider before taking on this swim.
i am pretty fascinated with the swim... since it's pretty new to me. i was watching a couple of high schoolers train while my daughter was practicing on her team. the coach broke out a small parachute on a line with a harness. they struggled quite a bit with this apparatus!
i would like to know about that. the cost/benefits etc.
im also interested in records. i know about the english channel, but what else is there?
i know people have crossed over to bimini in the bahamas from miami in canoes, on windsurfer boards, etc. has anyone swam it?
anyone know of a swim site dedicated to anything like this?