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Oct 22, 2020

This an interesting interview with swim coach Don Swartz.  He gave a talk in the early 1980s at an ASCA conference titled, "Nonsense and the Beginner's Mind:  Looking for a Quantum Leap."  It was his challenge to the swim coaching community to look for a better way to train athletes.  It is as relevant then as it is...


Aug 5, 2020

Great interview with the inventor of the Brick Kickboard, James Fike.  We spend a good deal of the time talking about his post collegiate swimming career and how even after swimming at the University of Texas he has been able to hit his best times 17 years later.  We also talk about the development of the...


Jun 9, 2020

in this episode we talk with former NCAA Division I distance swimmer turned triathlete, Erin Sosdian.  Erin is an athlete I have coached for 5 years and the first athlete I coached in swim/bike/run.  We talk about the training that helped to qualify her for 70.3 Worlds and Kona and the process of mastering the skill of...


Apr 19, 2020

Bruce Beall is a long time rowing coach and former US Olympic Rower.  He started his coaching career on the East Coast in the 1970s.  In the early 1980s, he teamed up with Jon Kabat-Zinn on the application of mindfulness on competitive rowers while Beall was the rowing coach at Harvard.  In this episode we talk about...


Feb 26, 2020

Special episode 12 is with Team Veranadra.  Vanessa, Dana, Fernanda and Sandra all came to me a couple years ago and said they wanted to compete in El Cruce - a 10k open water race in Mexico.  This is an interview with Vanessa, Fernanda and Sandra about their training and the race.  It's a fun time with great people who...