Category: Fun
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My New Year’s resolution: One picture released every day
As of today, I’ll be releasing one swim photo each day, at least for a year, under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. And maybe more, if it turns out to be a positive experience. First photo is the one that I use as header image here on Swimmer’s Daily, of media people diving…
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More pushup fun from Vágur
This time Høgni Simonsen and Pál Joensen’s kid brother Eyðbjørn Joensen.
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Amp your workout with FIT Radio
FIT Radio is a web and mobile application that streams DJ-engineered music of all genres designed to amp your workout. A Pandora for gym rats with several channels to choose from, such as Top 40, Electronic and Dub Step. Free streaming app available for iOS and Android. Finally a way to get rid of that…
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Christmas came early, a gift from the Big River Man himself
So I got in contact with Strel Swimming after blogging about their exciting swimming holiday trips in Slovenia and Croatia, and it turns out that ‘Big River Man‘ Martin Strel’s son Borut is also an IT geek professional. Go visit their state-of-the-art webpage www.strel-swimming.com, and notice that there is a special offer on their Slovenian…
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Shameless promotion of Faroese knitwear (and women)
Warning, this post has absolutely nothing to do with swimming, but everything with where I and my brother Bartal come from. You might have heard about the sweater in the Danish award winning TV series ‘Forbrydelsen’ (‘The Killing’), it is Faroese from Guðrun & Guðrun, while the knitwear in this video is designed by Jóhanna…
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Team GB girls model for charity ahead of 2012 Olympics
In between training for London 2012, female members of team GB including synchronised swimmer Jenna Randall have taken time out to pose for the Nichole de Carle London 2012 charity calendar, celebrating the London 2012 Olympic Games with all profits going to Wellbeing of Women. Bless their hearts, go buy that calendar here on nicholedecarle.com!…
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Ashrita Furman is The Record Breaker
Ashrita Furman a.k.a. “Mr. Versatility” has set close to 400 world records now over the last 32 years, beginning with 27,000 jumping jacks in 1979, and including stuff like walking 32.9 miles in 1989 with a milk bottle on his head, balancing 57 glasses on his chin in 1996, sack racing 10 kilometers in 1…