This is what you get for doing a blind search on Youtube for total immersion swimming. I’ve been reading the book and giving it a whirl in the pool. Thought some video might help. I guess it helps…
Monthly Archive: February 2007
Feb
25
Feb
16
Stop 1 South Manitou Island
*MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS.* ~Newspaper ad announcing Sir Ernest Shackleton’s trans-Antarctic Expedition~ This was the newspaper ad for the Shackleton expedition to transect the Antarctic continent by dog sled and on foot if …
Feb
15
Off the Map
It occurred to me I might be off the map. If this is the case, can anybody toss me a compass. Sometimes you are part of the problem, sometimes you are part of the solution. Today was my day to be part of the problem. Tomorrow will be better.
Feb
12
Like I need a new hobby…Telemark?
I’ve been out skiing with Laura and the kids over the last few weeks. Gabriel and Isabella have taken to it pretty well. They are always really excited to go. I remember my Grandfather Keith Wikle and my own father teaching me to ski at Shawnee mountain in the Poconos when I was a kid. …
Feb
10
Let’s call this the comeback, again
Ran 13 miles for the first time since the fifth 3rd 15 mile race in April 2005. Recovery from injury gets harder with every year. Not that I am an old man by any stretch. But I am not a 19 year old soccer hooligan anymore. If I fall it takes weeks to come back. …
Feb
06
How thick is your ice?
I was running last night in the dark. Led only by the dim blue glow of my headlamp my shoes crunched noisily into the snow. It was the kind of crunch that is painful to hear, because it is like stepping on dry chalk. I tried to run fast to warm up. I could feel …
Feb
06
