Category: Fun
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Met up with Chris DeSantis in CPH today
The Copenhagen 2011 international swimming blogosphere top summit went OK, me thinks, with me and Chris coming to a preliminary agreement about how to divide up the world between the two of us. Notice the coffee cups, and follow him on The Swim Brief.
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They don’t get anything to eat at Noma ?
Doesn’t sound like a two star Michelin restaurant ‘best in the World’ to me :-P Just found out I won’t be fed anything to eat until 5pm…starting at 9am. I’m in serious trouble! Gotta do it Haha #Copenhagen #Nomaless than a minute ago via UberSocial for BlackBerry Favorite Retweet ReplyGarrett Weber-GaleG_WeberGale
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Hiatus
Yeah, it is a bit quiet here. Last news from Pál was that he was lying in the sun somewhere with his girlfriend, listening to Led Zeppelin, reading Dostojevskij and enjoying a gin-and-sprite. I myself am witnessing how the financial crisis is developing in Sweden, forcing them to abandon garbage vans (or whatever :-)
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Wow, the Speedo Pace Club videos & iPhone app
The Speedo Pace Club is commercial yes, but has some really nice technique videos, plus an iPhone app for you to track your training, find pools nearby and do some social thing with your swim friends too. And there are blogs of famous Team USA swimmers. I like. Here it is Dana Vollmer world champion…
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A world champ took this picture
Alexander Dale Oen himself asked if I had been working out, with those legs. I told him no, I have been eating :-D
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International swimming is a whole lot of hotel
Participation at World Championships sounds very exotic, but is in fact quite tedious at times. The swimmer’s need to rest between 1 or 2 swim sessions a day, which means that you spend most of your time either at the hotel, the pool, or travelling between those two places. With little time for touristing the…
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This pool is reserved for Pál Joensen
Dumb luck or respect, Pál Joensen got to swim totally alone at the Yuan Shen Natatorium in Shanghai yesterday at noon. Afternoon training was packed though, with all the big countries in the pool, and the deck crowded with camera crews filming Tae-hwan Park, USA et al.