According to Running USA, 467,000 people completed a marathon in 2009, a 10% increase of runners finishing a marathon from 2008. Sold Out…that is what is happening at most big city marathons – very similar to races like the Great Swim in England, the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in New York, the Rottnest Channel Swim […]

Aqualoja provides a calendar of events in Portugal as well as descriptions, photos and videos of the POW (Pool Open Water and ocean swims. April Controlo de Tempo 5K Indoor, Póvoa do Varzim Piscina MunicipalRei e Rainha do Mar Europa, 1.5K and 5K, LisboaÁguas Abertas 2.0, 0.2K, 0.3K and 0.4K, Lisboa JuneÁguas Abertas Barragem dos

You want to do well. You train well. You make sacrifices. Your support team is ready. All systems are go. The weather is good. But your performance in the open water – whether it is your first open water swim, a channel attempt, a triathlon or a competition – does not meet your expectations. It

Sid Cassidy, whose career spans every aspect of open water swimming – a pro marathon swimmer, channel swimmer, record holder, coach, administrator, official and lecturer – is branching out to share his expertise and love of the open water aboard a luxury yacht. Sid, his wife Kara and long-time friend Capitan William L. Phillips III

Stanley Popovich provides his advice on how individuals can manage their worries in the open water: When an open water swimmer is out in a lake or ocean, fear can play a large role in their success – and safety. Here is a brief list of techniques that an open water swimmer can use to

The European Space Agency, in cooperation with Indra, a Madrid-based company, launched a satellite that measures ocean salinity last November. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity measuring system took ten years to develop and icludes hardware and software on ground stations and in data processing centers that receives data from the satellite. The satellite receives

Open water swimming will be a demonstration sport at the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece. Athletes from 18 countries will compete in the first 1.5K Open Water Swimming event held off the coast of the City of Marathon. What an appropriate venue to hold an open water swim. Copyright © 2010

Open water swimmers can help the ocean when they make reservations on Expedia’s new travel website. Click on Project Kaisei and Project Kaisei receives 8% of all reservations at no cost to you. Kaisei means ‘Ocean Planet’ in Japanese. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source

This past August, 2010 Miguel Vadillo of Mexico, a nominee for the World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year, swam a bone-chilling 18 hours and 4 minutes across one of the most unpredictable and wonderful bodies of fresh water on the planet: Lake Ontario. He became the 44th person to successfully conquer the lake