For long-distance swimmers, winning a gold medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle is as good as it gets. Nicknamed "the mile race" by the aquatic community, the event is the longest distance athletes swim ...

For years, I wouldn’t jump into a swimming pool. Sure, I could swim. I spent more than a decade as a competitive swimmer, but logging laps in the pool was no longer enjoyable. I would wade into the ...

Swim for fitness. That sounded easy: I already knew how to swim. So one day I stood on the pool deck looking at all the other happy lap swimmers, from speedy athletes to the portly old lady, swimming ...

Any distance swimmer knows the scene well: the pool deck clears out at the end of a morning session, swimmers shower, grab their stuff, and head back to their hotels for their pre-finals nap. For most ...

With temperatures in Carlsbad near or in the triple digits for the foreseeable future, keeping cool during the summer months is even more important. While the Carlsbad Waterpark remains closed due to ...

Certain tracker features are now ubiquitous: step counting, distance calculation, sleep tracking, and most recently, heart rate monitoring. But one of the more elusive features—swim tracking—is often ...

OAKLAND — With each graceful stroke through the water, the sinewy teen leaves one of the nation’s lingering stereotypes farther behind in his wake. A fierce competitor, 13-year-old Piankhi Gibson is ...