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OG Attempts the English Channel: August 2010
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OG Attempts the English Channel. A 57 year-old man decides to swim the English Channel solo. This is the log of the attempt. Have You Gained Weight? Common wisdom proclaims that people with a higher body mass index are more impervious to the effects of cold water. In our weight-obsessed society, this topic generates vociferous discussion. A very amusing example is the furor aroused when a gentleman posted a query. According to three studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine. When activated...
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OG Attempts the English Channel: How Old Are You?
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OG Attempts the English Channel. A 57 year-old man decides to swim the English Channel solo. This is the log of the attempt. How Old Are You? Today is my birthday and we're flying to England. If I succeed in the attempt to swim the. I will be fifty-eight years old and the oldest member of the Dolphin Club to do so. When I was in my twenty’s, fifty-eight seemed inconceivably ancient for a human being. Fittingly, my sense of scale was stunted in the other direction as well. John Selmer successfully swam the.
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February 2015 – (s)wimmerblog
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Pope Benedict XVI: A personal tribute to the man who resigned two years ago today. The MV Sydney 2000 – you can see the second, more narrow protruding front deck with yellow flooring on which I stood (and a little later, Pope Benedict XVI) quite clearly. (CC Image via Wikimedia). And yet, this is exactly what happened. Pope Benedict XVI. (Source: CC Image, Wikimedia). We need to re-read his Regensburg Address on Islam, for starters, as rabid Islamists are torturing and beheading Christians not far from t...
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Kein leises Servus: Wie ich mich in der aktuellen MK verabschiede – und wo man sich bewirbt, um selber Chefredakteur zu werden – (s)wimmerblog
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Kein leises Servus: Wie ich mich in der aktuellen MK verabschiede – und wo man sich bewirbt, um selber Chefredakteur zu werden. Anmerkung nach Druckgang der letzten Ausgabe: Ein herzliches Dankeschön für die vielen netten Grüße und Glückwünsche! Vergelt’s Gott. In der Süddeutschen Zeitung (SZ) hat Kollege Jakob Wetzl berichtet. 8220; Von München in die Welt. Ich werde sie mit Ihnen gemeinsam weiter lesen. Anian Christoph Wimmer, Chefredakteur. Bavarian-Australian journalist and author. Loves swimming...
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January 2015 – (s)wimmerblog
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Day 45 of the Great Big Marathon 10k Swimming Adventure: Cracking the 4k and dealing with neck pain. My trusty and highly recommended Garmin Swim watch always shows how much you have swum this week. Yes, you can turn the feature off. But it is a great motivator. Into my second week of the “new” swimming regimen. And despite massive snow storms making the commute cumbersome, the habit is settling in. And I am getting some serious pool time: From Monday to Wednesday, I swam 10,575 meters (check photo f...
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October 2014 – (s)wimmerblog
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Four years in ten minutes: How do you know who you are? And what matters most to you in your life? Four years is a long time, but also one that is easily taken stock of. Or is it? How do you summarize what happened in four years in, say, ten minutes aside from the fact that ten minutes of reading will also depend on how fast you personally read and how dense the subject matter is? What if you were to sketch out what is different now to what was before? How have you changed? Do you count the life events?
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Statement of the German, French and Swiss Bishops on their Study Day in Rome ahead of the Family Synod – (s)wimmerblog
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Statement of the German, French and Swiss Bishops on their Study Day in Rome ahead of the Family Synod. Few documents by the German Bishops’ Conference have drawn as much international interest as the press release dealing with the study day of French, Swiss and German bishops in Rome on Monday of this week. The press release is available in German. Following on from this, the second part included deliberations towards a Theology of Love, which understands sexuality as a precious gift from God to express...
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March 2015 – (s)wimmerblog
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How to spot a swimmer on dry land. How do you spot a swimmer on dry land? It used to be easy: Just follow the faint trail of chlorine. CC Image by Daniel Oines). With filtration systems improving these days, arguably the best way is to look for a certain type of person huddled in a large, fluffy parka, according to Mike Gustafson, who is dissecting swimmer lingo. Over at the USA Swimming website. He claims, in fact that. Read the full story. It is worth it. March 26, 2015. OK, first off: Yay! This is not...
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OG Attempts the English Channel: December 2009
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OG Attempts the English Channel. A 57 year-old man decides to swim the English Channel solo. This is the log of the attempt. I have around 25,000 yards of catch-up drill under my TYR now. Coach Val. He also took me through a brief equipment checklist. “What goggles you use in Channel? 8221; I pointed to the ones on my head. “No allergy? 8221; he asked. I shook my head. “No fogging? 8221; I shook my head. “No leaking? Links to this post. The Polar Bear Challenge. Since its inception, earning a “pola...
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Stella schwimmt: Langdistanztraining 2014 (Teil 1)
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Samstag, 5. April 2014. Langdistanztraining 2014 (Teil 1). März Ich schnappe einige Sekunden lang nach Luft, bevor sich meine Atmung allmählich normalisert. Noch zwei, drei Armzüge Rücken, dann erst drehe ich mich in die Bauchlage und kraule hinter Tom, Jo. Und Phia her, Sue. 8222;Warum mache ich das? Ein Vor mir und meinen vier Mitschwimmern sowie unseren Betreuern Fiona. Keine nach den Maßstäben von Marathonschwimmern (ab 25km) oder Ärmelkanalaspiranten ( Luftlinie:. Mal wieder "draußen" schwimmen.
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