RE: Summer Swimming Reads

knelson — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:19:29 GMT

I just got "Four Champions, One Gold Medal" but haven't read it yet. I agree "Gold in the Water" is a good read.

RE: Summer Swimming Reads

salgut — Wed, 16 Jun 2004 11:22:51 GMT

I also really liked Swimming to Antartica....I found it very inspirational. It is very well written and you really get drawn into the reading....I rarely set it down over the 1 1/2 days I spent reading it. I have some other recommendations...although the books are not new books and some of them might take a little digging around to find: Gold in the Water - P. H. Mullen Jr. By a Fraction of a Second - Lois Ruskai Melina The 50-meter Jungle - Sherman Chevoor-- this is out of print and kind of hard to get hold of--- but it's REALLY worth reading --- written by the coach of Arden Hills Swim Club in Sacramento in the 60's and 70's ---he coached the Ferris kids, as well as Mark Spitz, Debbie Myer, and Mike Burtton. (I think I have a personal connection to this one because I swam in Sacramento in the 60's - although I didn't swim for Arden Hills...if I had I would probably be a better swimmer!) My two favorites are actually "Gold" and "The 50-meter Jungle" You may have already read "gold" (most everyone has)....if not I really recommend it. Sally Guthrie