Articles by Dan Empfield

US age group athlete Kevin Moats has been hit with his second ban, this time for 8 years. He’s announced his retirement.

No more thought experiments. Now it’s just practicing the drills and themes that we learned during the first half of this challenge.

For the Butterfields, John Denver is on the iPod. Horses, llamas, goats, chickens, guinea fowl, and a peacock. But Bermuda is not forgotten.

For those who think anything over 300 word is tl;dr: It’ll be up in the aggregate, but the median race will be flat or down.

Slowtwitch is lucky to have superswimmers in the community. One is Tim Liebhold, and he shares his tips for Adult Onset Swimmers

Are you able to perform one-arm pulls as described? If so, you are swimming hip-driven freestyle! Now let’s begin to focus on how you pull.

The power of the training enclave is huge; it’s how most of the world’s best athletes got to be good, and remain good.

Genetics wins when you’re 11. But the older you get the more genetics falls to the point of being an inconsequential factor.

I tend to travelogue our family Slowcations here, and here is our latest: open water swimming in Bermuda.

You retain the vestigial behaviors from the time you were still struggling with learning to breathe to the side. Let’s deal with those.

It’s not just about learning good technique. A lot of late-onset triathletes quit because they never understand the Big Idea.

I have less confidence in today’s installment than any I’ve already written, or any that I’m going to write. But I rank this rather high.