Governor Corbett’s proposed 2012-13 budget eliminates all conservation, park and recreation funding from the Keystone Recreation, Park and Conservation Fund of which the Susquehanna Greenway is a recipient. The budget goes on to propose that the termination of funding be made permanent. This means a loss of $30 million for conservation in 2012-13 and far [...]
Very few of us are going to be spending winter in the South Pacific or even South Florida where the only frozen water is ice in the drinks, yet if your 2012 race venues include a beach and waves now is the time to work on the skills that will get you through the water [...]
By Bruckner Chase I hit the first jellyfish at 4:30 in the morning. I hit the next one at 4:31. By 5:30 when the sun was rising I had lost count of the stings. When I could finally see into the cold darkness of Monterey Bay, our plans for an uneventful twenty-five mile swim across [...]
By Bruckner Chase When I put on a pair of goggles for a swim I often don’t take them off again for hours. I wear contacts, and I need to see everything that is going on around me from boats to wildlife. Over the years I have gone through countless goggles, and the new Vision [...]
By Bruckner Chase Pool swimming is all about technique and time, and once you start swimming more than fifty meters developing a sense of pace is critical to improving performance over every event from the 100 to the mile. Â The challenge is that clocks on the wall (If they are present.) are often hard to [...]
Story by Bruckner Chase Check the ones that apply: _ You have mastered every freestyle drill in the book. _ Your stroke count per 25 is in the single digits. _ You crank through a set of 10×200’s and descend every one. _ On race day you forget all of the above before you reach the [...]
This year, the Friends of the Wissahickon, (FOW) is embarking on the first park census since 1994, and the first park user survey since 2006. FOW will be using a combination of trail counters in 10 locations in tandem with volunteer survey teams that will perform a physical count of visitors to the Wissahickon Valley [...]
By Bruckner Chase So referencing a shark movie may not be the best way to introduce a perspective switch on open water; however if you change what you pack and how you approach the water beyond the pool you can be the shark. Whether you want a faster swim split, a new endurance challenge or [...]
By Bruckner Chase So referencing a shark movie may not be the best way to introduce a perspective switch on open water; however if you change what you pack and how you approach the water beyond the pool you can be the shark. Whether you want a faster swim split, a new endurance challenge or [...]
Whether your miles are in the ocean, on the roads or along the trail, anything that adds stress to your body is going to affect your performance, and as endurance athletes training and competing along the Mid-Atlantic Coast you can count on the sun being a major stressor.
