Swimming

Open water miscellany

I got a letter yesterday from Clifton May, a Slowtwitch reader. He listed three problems, all of which seem to be common to new triathletes.

Swimming

Open water tactics

While most of the articles featured in Swim Center are penned by extremely accomplished swimmers, it's almost counterproductive to have a swimmer like that write about tactics. How would they know? They don't need tactics. They have talent.

Swimming

Masters: the best way to get faster

If I had to choose, I'd say becoming a member of a masters swim team is even more important than being part of a tri club.

Swimming

The Basics of Ocean Swimming

New triathletes—or triathletes new to the ocean—are quite often scared to death of negotiating waves during an open-ocean swim. Wouldn’t you like to be able to go through the waves without giving them a second thought?

Swimming

Care and Feeding of your wetsuit

The issue of proper wetsuit care -- notwithstanding the fluidic medium in which a wetsuit is used-- is rather concrete, and not subject to the changing tides of theory.

Swimming

Getting the darn thing on and off

How on earth do you put this wetsuit on and take it off?!