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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Watching a swimmer take stroke after stroke can be a bit boring. Watching a swimmer take stroke after stroke while in place and training in an Endless Pool can be incredibly tedious. But somehow Jamie Patrick and FINIS can make such training into entertainment. Over 1,500 unique visitors watched
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lots of open water swimmers have advice when it comes to jellyfish and stings, but no one in our opinion knows as much about jellyfish as biochemist Dr. Angel Yanagihara of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, a faculty member at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Here
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was a pleasure to hear the discussion between Lewis Pugh and the Night Train Swimmers in San Francisco, California yesterday. Their topic after the annual 5 Coves of Death swim in Aquatic Park: cold water swimming. While the Night Train Swimmers regularly train and swim in 9°C-12°C, Pugh
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The list includes audacious, unprecedented, extreme, geographically-dispersed swims across and in various open bodies of water around the world dating from 1810 to the present.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine having a job in Hollywood…swimming…in the ocean…and with dolphins… That is what masters swimmer, coach and stuntman Tom Reudy did as a 22-year-old. The former competitive swimmer worked a stunt-double swimmer for Patrick Duffy in the 1970s television series Man from Atlantis. Ready wrote, “I’m amazed how many
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Darren Miller is preparing for his invitation-to-all, challenge-to-the-triathlon-world Sub-32 Marathon. And he is running well. “I did a 2:59 [marathon run] on a whim when I decided to run on Sunday at the Pittsburgh Marathon,” reported Miller. “With no rest and after a tough week of training, I feel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Unión Americana de Natación (UANA or the Amateur Swimming Union of the Americas) under the leadership of Brazil’s Coaracy Nunes Filho appointed its technical open water swimming officials and referees (International Technical Officials or ITO) for the 2015 Pan American Games that will be held in Toronto, Canada this
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Photos courtesy of Dr. Jim Miller. With the long-running heated rivalries among American women to become USA Swimming representatives at international competitions, there is plenty of close competition and physicality between Haley Anderson, Ashley Twichell, Becca Mann, Eva Fabian, Christine Jennings, Lindsay Vrooman, Kaitlin Pawlowicz, Tristin Baxter, Emily Brunemann, Stephanie Peacock and others. That kind
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Iguana Open Water Swim will be held for the first time. The 1 km fun swim and 5 km competitive sea swim is located on Porto Mari Beach in Curaçao in the Dutch Caribbean on May 9th this week. For more information, contact Raoul Hooftman (vp-openwater@curacao-aquatics.org) or Elma
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