Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. LiveSwim.net carried the Naples Island Swims live online yesterday under bright, sunny skies of Long Beach, California The smiles of the hundreds of finishers were not dampened by the brisk 61°F (16.1°C) water. “I felt good. It was fun,” said 3-mile competitor Lexie Kelley. The Naples Island Swims, a […]

Alex Meyer won his first world championship in the 25K (15.5 miles) in lac St-Jean, five hours north of Montreal as the American aquatic press is starting to take notice. Swimming World MagazineSwimming World Magazine‘s Morning Swim Show interviewed Alex here. Universal Sports ran a story about Alex here. USA Swimming ran a story about

Simon Tobin of Canada and Heidi George of the USA won their first professional marathon swims today at the 4th Traversée internationale du Mégantic in lac Mégantic, Quebec, Canada. Simon won in a course record 2 hours and 9 minutes before a crowd of over 1,000 fans at the finish. “This is my third participation

Former Dartmouth swimmer Elizabeth Mancuso won the 8-mile Boston Light Swim in 59°F (15°C) waters yesterday in 2 hours and 42 minutes after an unusually close finish over Dori Miller of Bondi Beach, Australia, and Lance Ogren of New York. Elizabeth told the Boston Globe, “I knew I was out front, but I didn’t know

The man is a marathon swimmin machine whose airmiles deserve a gold medal alone. After winning his tenth straight victories in lac St-Jean and lac Memphemagog in Canada over the last few weeks and competing in the 10K and 25K world championship, Petar set off again and won his unprecedented ninth straight victory in the

Eilidh Macdonald became the first person to swim the 15 miles between the Scottish islands of Harris and Skye. “I wanted to do the swim because I had just graduated from university and was looking for a challenge that didn’t involve any essays or exams. My parents are both from the Isle of Lewis and

The global swimming community will certainly be glued to the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships between August 18th-22nd with all the intriguing match-ups in the water. There will be some great rivalries among the men, among the women, between the newcomers and veterans, and in the relay events. Ryan Lochte vs. Michael Phelps. Rebecca Soni vs.

For decades we have been advocating the importance of core (abdominal) strength in open water swimming based on our empirical scientific testing and observations of channel swimmers, lake swimmers, marathon swimmers, ocean swimmers, cold-water swimmer and every kind of open water swimmer in every kind of environment. We have always advocated that if open water

The always engaging individual, the thoroughly entertaining speaker, the former SAS warrior, the intellectual barrister Lewis Pugh gives another captivating talk on his cold-water swims to the esteemed audience at the TED Conference. You will enjoy: Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones