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Swimming In The Deep

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

How did you celebrate the 4th yesterday?

I headed out to the middle of Walden for a while to escape the crowds. I brought along my camera (tucked away Bree Wee-style) and had some fun splashing around all by myself and chasing fish for a while.

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Happy 4th!

Monday, July 4th, 2011

Happy Independence Day Everyone!

Hopefully you have some nice weather wherever you are, you get out for some nice swimbikerun and enjoy some post-workout burgers, beers and fireworks with friends and family.

To celebrate, here is my latest mankini design.

Now I’m off to watch the Tour de France, jump into Walden for a swim and head out to spend the day with the (soon to be) in-laws.

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My Secret Pool

Monday, June 20th, 2011

This weekend I discovered a new (to me) secret pool. <excite!>

Unlike my neighborhood pool and walden pond (where I do 99% of my swim workouts) it was not completely crowded with other swimmers. I enjoy not feeling like I am playing Russian roulette when I choose what lane to swim in.

“Should I choose the wide lane at the end with the old lady doing elementary back stroke, or the middle lane with five other swimmers circling? And only one of them is swimming with their face in the water?”

Either way I’m going to get punched in the face or kicked in the gonads with an errant breast stroke kick.

But at my new secret pool, there were only two other swimmers in the pool for the whole hour, and there were no lane lines either! But do you want to know my favorite part? It isn’t covered! Open air pools are hard to come by in New England. It is a mix of my favorite things about pool swimming and open water swimming mixed together.

I brought my paddles and swam till my shoulders fell off, then kicked off the wall on my back so I could watch the birds and planes fly through the clouds overhead. Then I strapped on the paddles and did it all over again.

Since it is my secret, you only get to see the view from the bottom of the pool. Shhhh! I’m not telling where it is! I wouldn’t mind seeing some friendly faces, there, but I also wouldn’t mind if it stays a little known swimming spot for the rest of the summer.

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Rev3 Quassy Pictures and Video

Tuesday, June 14th, 2011

A week and a half later, I’ve finally been able to go through all the pictures and videos from Rev3 Quassy. Between my duties working behind the scenes for the pro race, I was able to snap some pictures at the swim. By far my favorite was this picture of James Cunnama coming out of the water on his way to a win. He looks like an animal about to attack. I love it.

My second favorite is this panorama shot from the age grouper swim start. Click through to see the big version.

(click the pic to see the full version)

And lastly, I sliced up some clips from the camera that I had mounted to my aerobars. Rather than show the whole video (which is a MEGA big HD file) I just threw together some of my favorite parts of the course. It just happens to be that they are almost all speedy descents. It looks like I edited parts to fast forward through them, but it is all in real time. A few of the shots are of me hitting +46 mph. I even passed the USAT official on the motorcycle a few times.