Mine is a familiar story: I used to hate even the idea of running. But, in 2020, when gyms closed their doors, I downloaded the Couch to 5k app, and ran approximately three times a week for the next ...

My mother signed me up for swim lessons at the age of 2. Just two short years later, I was competing at my first club swim meet with The Woodlands Swim Team (TWST). At 4 years old, I was the smallest ...

From everyday questions to more complex problems, we’re asking the experts to lend us a hand. Throughout the series "Professional Help," we’ll hear some direct advice, for us not-so-direct Minnesotans ...

Vijaya Srivastava, who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, took her first swimming lesson at age 68. She’s now a daily swimmer. Credit...Video by Aubrey Trinnaman for The New York Times Supported by ...

It’s another gray Pacific Northwest winter morning. The kind where the water and sky blend together into one, imbued with a raw, wet cold that seeps into your bones. I could be sitting inside drinking ...

It was nostalgia, not a desire to clear my head that first drew me to outdoor swimming in my 30s. I’d grown up close to water and spent my childhood at the beach, neck deep in the North Sea. The ...

Katie Ledecky. With the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio less than a year away, it’s a name you should get used to hearing. Earlier this month, the 18-year-old swimmer won five gold medals and set two ...

Ariarne Titmus, a four-time Olympic swimming gold medalist for Australia who forged a rivalry with Katie Ledecky, announced ...

For many years Melanie Sellers battled the effects of arthritis, limiting mobility in her life, that is until swimming came to her rescue last year. The knee joint in Sellers' right leg was replaced ...