Category: Swimming

  • Tim Don – Advice for beginners

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , , , , ,

    There are a bunch of new first years on the course getting into (and a few very much already into) triathlon. If you new guys & girls are looking for advice there’s nowhere better than to start than with words from the Don. Have a look at some of the other Oakley Armchair Sessions on…

  • Human Race Dorney Middle Distance Aquathlon – race report

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , ,

    I’m training for the Dublin Marathon at the end of October, so I was looking for a race or 2 for interest and measure that would fit into my September schedule. I really didn’t fancy lining up at the Bristol half-marathon with thousands of others. Hunting around I found an interesting length of race: a…

  • Post workout recovery latte

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , , , , ,

    My caffe latte I, er, occasionally grab after a tough run or a strength workout at the gym may actually be a better recovery drink than I joked about in a previous post. In a full milk latte you’re looking at around 10g protein, 225 calories and 5g of fat. Fat’s a good thing for…

  • Ironman

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , ,

    As I’ve probably said, I’ve moved back towards endurance sports. I’m running this year again, but at some distances that I’ve not run at before. Focusing on running gives me a chance to lay down some PBs and find out how fast I really can go (I think I can go pretty fast) but it’s…

  • October sea swimming

    —

    by

    Sam
    in ,

    Honestly, I took this photo today. This is a late October Sunday afternoon. Cool, eh? Well, except for the daft number of surfers. When the tide is this high there’s no width to the bay so everyone gets crammed into a small section. People are playing in the sea or are trying to swim, so…

  • Megan’s Big Swim

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , ,

    One of our first year medicine students at Swansea is attempting to swim the English Channel next week. As you do. (These students are nuts for doing things that are ridiculously hard). Go see how Megan is getting on at her blog: megansbigswim.wordpress.com. While you’re there, click on her “Sponsor me” link and give some…

  • Rich & Matt’s Derwent Water swim

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , ,

    A couple of buddies of mine will be swimming the length of Derwent Water in the Lake District this weekend to raise money for charity (and for bragging rights). The length of the lake is a little over 5 miles, and the swim is likely to be a touch longer than that. It’s a cold…

  • Try-a-Tri 2007

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , , , ,

    OK, so I wasn’t really lazing around on the sofa on Sunday. I was up at 5.30am to get to Cardiff and take photos for the Cardiff Triathletes’ novice Try-a-Tri triathlon. I took almost 600 snaps, thanks to a new SanDisk II Ultra 4GB memory card. Most of those photos have gone up on the…

  • Mass

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , , , ,

    I’ve been picking up the triathlon training over the last 5 or 6 weeks. You may remember that I was getting very bored, so starting running again seemed like a good idea. My various injuries seem to be staying down so far, and running is good. Swimming and cycling have been picking up too, and…

  • The Triathlon Salmon

    —

    by

    Sam
    in , ,

    I’m reading an article on xtri.com about cortisol, stress, training and the salmon. It’s nicely relevant to www.dontbeasalmon.net (this website) and is similar to comments I’ve made in the past, but this time is linked in with problems of overtraining (the salmon “under-rests” for weeks in its attempt to reach its spawning grounds and as…