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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Valerie Gregoire led from the 2.5-mile Nevis to St Kitts Cross Channel Swim from start to finish, expertly navigating the Narrows in 1 hour 3 minutes. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA with swimmers standing on the shore of the Cayman Brac Channel in the Cayman Islands. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Tim Ferriss is well-known for explaining how to make the impossible possible. He has a new television program that will begin on April 28th with some of the world’s best teachers. His purpose is to deconstruct, decode and demystify different activities from shooting pistols to swimming in the open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Meyer and David Heron train with each other every day. They race and push each other twice a day: the older competitor from New York, the younger one from California. But they both found their way to the University of Tennessee where they train together under taskmaster and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The top 3 athletes on the podium remained the same in the women’s 5 km and 10 km at the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships: Haley Anderson, Ashley Twichell, and Becca Mann. Except they all finished in different places in both events. Becca Mann finished first in the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Younger women and older men frequently compete together in open water races. The competition can be close – and friendly of course – when the women are under 30 and the men are over 40. Both age groups (women in their late teen years through their late 20s and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After becoming the first person to swim across Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana, Matt Moseley will attempt another unprecedented crossing in Puerto Rico. He will attempt to swim 20 miles from Isla Culebra to Fajardo. American Jarrett Tishmack completed the first crossing of the 15 km Vieques Channel from Culebra
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sharon van Rouwendaal continues to build up all kinds of racing experience as she heads to the 2015 FINA World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, touted as one of the pre-race favorites. Van Rouwendaal won the 15 km FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix in Cozumel this weekend over
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Last week, the open water swimming community was shocked and saddened with the plans of the U.S. federal government and commercial interests to move the ferry service to Alcatraz Island next door to the South End Rowing Club at Ft Mason in San Francisco Bay’s Aquatic Park. Campaigns were
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On the weekends, open water swimmers do the unprecedented and the unusual: they swim against currents, face sharks, swim up and down massive ocean swells. Yet on weekdays, they return to their cubicles, offices and desks like white-collar employees around the world. They are outwardly mild-mannered workers, medical personnel,
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