Best of Open Water:
Essential Reading


Open Water swimming has long been one of our favorite topics. If you enjoy it as much as we do, here’s a list of some of the best articles we’ve published on the topic in the past five years.

Enjoy!



July 2006 At Home in the Sea


June 2006 Manhattan Island Marathon Part Deux


June 2006 12-Yard Training for a 1.2-Mile Open Water Swim


May 2006 Long Distances, Stroke By Stroke


December 2005 An Economy Class Crossing of Catalina Channel


July 2005 How I Found the Ocean Swimmer Within


August 2004 A "Diagonal Power" Breakthrough


July 2004 From Aquaphobe to Relaxed Open-Water Swimmer


December 2003 Matt Johnson's English Channel Swim


May 2003 What Does It Take To Swim The English Channel?


April 2003 Self-Coached to an Effortless Ironman Swim


October 2002 Two Ocean Swims (with some cycling and…um, limping… after one)


October 2002 Offshore: A Novice Triathlete Learns to Navigate in Open Water


July 2002 One Very Big Happy Lap (around Manhattan)