Triathlon swim training in Amsterdam from a local coach: race distances, where to train, the NTB wetsuit rules and a 12-week plan for your first race.

“I’m a strong swimmer, the cold won’t bother me.” That’s the sentence I hear right before someone gasps, grabs the dock, and climbs straight back out. The thing that catches confident swimmers off guard in a Dutch lake isn’t distance…

You’d think a city built on water would make outdoor swimming in Amsterdam easy. It doesn’t. Most of Amsterdam’s canals are off-limits, half the “beaches” you see on Instagram aren’t officially swimmable, and the rules change every season. So where…

“I can swim laps just fine; how hard can a lake be?” That’s the line we hear most often from confident pool swimmers right before their first open water session humbles them. The truth is, open water swimming is a…