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Rising open water coach Tyler Fenwick is leading a very talented group of athletes in Colorado Springs for an intense three-week training camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center. There, Fenwick is getting them ready for this summer\u2019s major competitions, including the world championships and Pan American Games. Swimming World spent time with eight of them during a phone call to discuss the present and future of open water swimming in the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n

The participants:<\/h2>\n

Haley Anderson:<\/strong> 2012 Olympic 10K silver medalist, 2015 world championship team member
\nMads Glaesner:<\/strong> 2012 short course world champion, 1500 freestyle
\nDavid Heron:<\/strong> 2015 Pan American Games team member
\nAlex Meyer:<\/strong> 2012 U.S. Olympian, 2015 world championship team member
\nChip Peterson:<\/strong> 2005 10K world champion, 2015 Pan American Games team member
\nJarod Poort:<\/strong> 2015 world championship team member (Australia)
\nMaddy Tegner:<\/strong> 2015 SEC championship finalist, 500 and 1650 freestyle
\nRichard Weinberger:<\/strong> 2012 Olympic 10K bronze medalist, 2015 world championship team member (Canada)<\/p>\n

Swimming World: Tell me about the hardest set you\u2019ve done so far in Colorado Springs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson:<\/strong> I felt the set of 1×400 on 4:40, 2×200 on 2:20, 4×100 on 1:20 twice through was pretty tough.<\/p>\n

Poort:<\/strong> Then straight into 6×500, no rest.<\/p>\n

SW: Alex, you\u2019re the veteran of the group. What have you imparted to the younger swimmers about open water swimming? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Meyer:<\/strong> We haven\u2019t really had the chance to take all the lane lines out for open water practice, as we do in Tennessee. I try to chime in a little bit when I can, but I think we all learn from each other a lot. We get in the water and mix it up and rumble a little bit. When Jarod and Richard both came to Tennessee, we had good learning opportunities from both of them.<\/p>\n

\"Richard<\/a>

Photo Courtesy: Tyler Fenwick<\/p><\/div>\n

SW: Maddy, what has it been like training not just at Tennessee with Alex, but at this training camp with people like Haley and Richard, who have won Olympic medals in open water swimming? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tegner:<\/strong> It\u2019s a really cool experience to get to train with these guys. I\u2019ve never trained at this level with these athletes, so it\u2019s really cool to get in the water every day knowing I have people to push me. We\u2019re having a really good time as well.<\/p>\n

SW: Those who are looking to get into open water swimming probably think they have to do ten times as much yardage as they do now if they want to be competitive. Is that true? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson:<\/strong> I don\u2019t train like a normal open water swimmer. Yes, (at the training camp) I\u2019ve been training a lot more than I normally do, but I think \u2026 you can be successful if you believe you\u2019re doing the right things for you.<\/p>\n

Peterson:<\/strong> I agree. I\u2019m up here doing a big increase in volume from what I\u2019ve been doing. I felt like I was pretty successful at a collegiate program where we averaged (60,000 to 70,000 yards) a week. I maybe did a little extra, but not much since I was training for the mile and focusing on that. I still managed to be successful.<\/p>\n

SW: I\u2019m curious to know how some of you decided to evolve into open water swimming. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson:<\/strong> Catherine (Vogt) made me (do it).<\/p>\n

Heron:<\/strong> I grew up near the beach, so I was always out swimming in the ocean. Throughout my pool career, I got better at distance, so once Tyler (Fenwick) became my coach (at Mission Viejo Nadadores), he had me try open water swimming. I liked it, and I got pretty good at it.<\/p>\n

Meyer:<\/strong> Hell yeah, you did! (Heron was fourth at the 2015 open water nationals, qualifying for the Pan American Games.)<\/p>\n

Peterson:<\/strong> I had a similar experience. I grew up near the coast, and I was a distance swimmer, so it just kind of fit in. I won my first national championship in open water when I was 15.<\/p>\n

Meyer:<\/strong> I always felt like the mile was too short for me. A lot of people would scoff at the mile being too short. Like Chip and David, I grew up near a lake. My coach used to always tell us this crazy long story about this girl he coached in the \u201880s who swam the length of Eagle Lake, which is \u2026 about 40 miles long. I could always get him to waste 45 minutes of practice time by telling this story, but I was also very intrigued by the whole thing. I was pretty inspired by that. Along with the fact that I was just getting going at the end of the mile, and I never liked going out fast, so it was too short. So, I started doing the 5K when I was younger at nationals.<\/p>\n

SW: What can be done to make open water swimming more popular in the United States? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Peterson:<\/strong> More high-level domestic events.<\/p>\n

Meyer:<\/strong> There aren\u2019t that many opportunities right now. When I decided when I wanted to do some open water races, I lived in New York, and there were two 1-mile swims for the older weekend warrior Masters people, so it wasn\u2019t very competitive for me. The next step was the 5K open water national championships, so there was nothing in between. There\u2019s very little opportunity for kids to get kids immersed in the sport.<\/p>\n

Peterson:<\/strong> I\u2019ve seen a good development since I\u2019ve been in the sport of LSC-level races and age-group races, but there aren\u2019t very many races in the U.S. where we can come together and race and attract international people. It makes it challenging for us because we can\u2019t gain experience without having to travel all year long.<\/p>\n

SW: Mads, is open water swimming is more popular in Europe than it is in the United States?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Glaesner:<\/strong> It\u2019s difficult to say because I don\u2019t do many open water races, but it\u2019s definitely a growing sport and a lot more people are getting interested in it.<\/p>\n

SW: Richard, you won a bronze medal in the 10K at the 2012 Olympics. How has that success helped increase the exposure of open water swimming in Canada, if at all? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Weinberger:<\/strong> It\u2019s definitely growing in Canada. Before, I had Eric Hedlin competing against me, and my old teammate David Creel. After the London Olympics, a couple of French guys cropped up in Quebec and they\u2019ve been pushing me a lot these past two years and leading up to the Olympic year.<\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy: Tyler Fenwick<\/p><\/div>\n

SW: It\u2019s been almost five years since Fran Crippen died. What are your thoughts on the direction FINA is going to make open water swimming safer? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Meyer:<\/strong> They\u2019ve done some good things. In general, the supervision has generally been better. I think the 31 degrees Celsius (maximum) temperature rule is (expletive deleted).<\/p>\n

SW: The 10K at world championships this summer will pick the top 10 per gender that will go to the Olympics. What do you think about the selection process? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson: <\/strong> I think it\u2019s cool. I think it makes (the world championship race) elite.<\/p>\n

Meyer: <\/strong> I think to make it one Olympic qualifier that is closer the Olympics would be better, and it\u2019s a better way to get a deeper and more competitive field. I\u2019m a good example of why you shouldn\u2019t pick an Olympic team spot more than a year away from the Olympics. A lot can happen in a year. I hurt my shoulder, and things didn\u2019t go very well for me. (He finished 10th in the 10K swim in London.) Injuries can happen, but it\u2019s a disadvantage for younger athletes. They\u2019re improving at a much faster rate, and someone who might not have been on the radar in 2015 can be really good in 2016, but might have missed out on the opportunity to qualify because someone from their country already made it at worlds. I think it\u2019s a thing that FINA is not going to want to change, because of the appeal of selecting 20 athletes from their world championships.<\/p>\n

Anderson: <\/strong> In 2012, four of the six (Olympic) medalists from the two events (men\u2019s and women\u2019s 10K) came from the second qualifying race. (Anderson was one of them.)<\/p>\n

Peterson: <\/strong> The world championships is a much, much different race than the Olympic qualifier, and very different from the Olympics. The size of the field is significantly smaller, and it changes the dynamic. It\u2019s hard for a swimmer to train for all of those dynamics, but it also shows the versatility of the athlete who succeed on all those levels.<\/p>\n

SW: When people on the street ask you what you do, and you tell them you\u2019re an open water swimmer, what\u2019s the general reaction? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson: <\/strong> You\u2019re crazy to swim that long.<\/p>\n

Peterson: <\/strong>They ask you how far, and you tell them how far, and they can\u2019t fathom what that is like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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