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Data courtesy of the Marathon Swimmers Forum along the California coast. This early Friday morning 5.5 miles from the Farallon Islands, Captain Vito Bialla pulled the plug on the 5-member Great British Farallon Swim team. Four hours 40 minutes after they started on the Farallon Islands in sub-10°C water, their dreams were over. When Captain […]
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Uaimh an tSolais & Uaimh na nÉan film by Sam Krohn with Donal Buckley on the Copper Coast in Ireland. Men’s Journal published its 15 Best Beaches in the World issue. Not surprisingly, the beaches almost exclusively consisted of warm, tropical beaches with coral reefs, light-blue or light-green waters. The beaches – located from Hawaii
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The comparison against men and women in the open water is always an interesting exercise, especially since women are on average historically faster than men in the English Channel. The top 3 men in the world in the 50m freestyle in the pool are 11.7% faster than the top
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Up until 1984, a crossing of lac St-Jean in Canada was considered a tremendous feat. Since 1955, the 32 km Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean had challenged professional marathon swimmers from around the world to a tough 32 km, wind-whipped race across the cold-water lake in Quebec. However, in
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “You have to swim with aggression,” explains Lewis Pugh when providing advice when swimming in extremely cold water. “You all have hopes and dreams and ambitions, the thing that is limiting you is fear. You need to continue to identify those limiting beliefs and keep pushing them away.” Copyright
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like the + Pool that was via crowd funded by 3,175 backers who pledged US$273,114 to help bring the project to life. Three American buddies using Kickstarter believe that any open body of water can be transformed into a clean place for public swimming. They set about to build
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With the lighting on the open water set just so, we had to drive over to Sunset Beach in Southern California for an sunset swim. The small dark figure on the horizon is a large tanker outside of Long Beach Harbor. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Vito Bialla will escort the first British relay attempt from the Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, 30 miles (48.2 km) away. John Gunn, Mary Stokes, Ali Wilde, Ed Morgan and Simon Clarke are part of the 5-member Great British Farallon Swim. The quartet will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For open water swimmers who have been around long enough and for those who have attempted dozens of swims, there are usually some swims that were just a little beyond what was possible. Michael Read MBE has had a very successful career – one of the longest and most
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Day One at the 4-day stage swim, S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, in Arizona was held across Saguaro, a 9.5-mile (15.2 km) course at 1529-feet (466m) elevation. The growing wind gusts gradually made conditions tougher as the race went on. Two young guns – Jacob Miyauchi and Cole Gindhart – led
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