Open Water Swimming

An excellent book either for beginner or advanced open water swimmers. This book cover all itens since preparation, trainning up to the day of competition. The book presents trainning for short and long distance for your better preparation. Easy and funny to read, this book still describes real stories (some of them motivational) of long distance competitions, like English Channel.

I used the book to prepare for my first open water 2,000 metre race off the beach last year. Its well written, interesting, full of tips and easy to read - it certainly helped me become a better and more confident open water swimming and would recommend it to all us amateur open water enthusiasts!

This book really helped me and my open water swim friends with our races. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in open water swimming.

I am a distance ocean swimmer and found the book to be very helpful. Penny Dean is a legend in Channel Swimming and writes from experience. I used many of her training recommendations in preparing for the Catalina Channel and am using it again in my preparation for the English Channel. This book is very well regarded by multiple friends who are Channel Swimmers. I think highly enough of the book to be buying a second copy because my original copy was loaned to someone who has not yet returned it.

This is an excellent book. I am considering training for the English channel swim and found this book excellent as a source of vital information with regards open water swimming. Not only is the book from a world expert but there is great passion in the writing as well as superb technical aspects of swimming in open water. I especially liked the fact that it dealt with very long swims unlike many of the commercially available open water books out there that are catering for triatholon swimming distances as obviously that is where the money is with regards to publishing and selling.It is what most long distace swimmers train for. There are very few books on long distance open water swimming longer than a triatholon swim so this book for me is a must. As for the reviewer that felt she wrote the book like a drill coach, if you want to swim something like the english channel any approach unlike the one in this book will equal failure.