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As the six Night Train Swimmers get ready for their 30-mile Farallones Island swim this Saturday, team captain Vito Bialla is confident of good weather to calm the turbulent ocean west of San Francisco Bay, “I’m optimistic fog and drizzle will move in with cooler weather inland as the Farmer’s Almanac predicted. Once all this […]
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Two-time FINA World Masters champion Gerry Rodrigues will start up the Tower 26 open water workouts again on Friday in Santa Monica Beach in Southern California. “The water has warmed a bit (63-64°F)and we are ready to start at 6 am sharp,” announced Gerry. “These are tough and targeted workouts geared for massive improvements in
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This past Saturday, 30-year-old Jeffrey Cleveland, an economist at Payden & Rygel Investment Management in Los Angeles, joined a very exclusive club as a result of his eighth-place finish at the 2010 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. After completing a 10:22 crossing of the English Channel in 2008 and a 9:33 crossing of the Catalina Channel
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OptimisSport is organizing the first new major international professional swim in Los Angeles County since the early 1990’s. In a part of the world where tens of thousands of triathletes and endurance athletes regularly take to the ocean and streets, it is refreshing to see a new marathon swim come on the scene. The Distance
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Brendan Capell, the 2004 world 25 km champion, is training hard and counting on his Aussie mate, Olympian Ky Hurst, to help him break the 6 hour 57 minute English Channel record of Petar Stoychev this summer. Brendan and Petar have competed againstone another before in 25 km races
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The Bali Swim4Kids Ocean Swim will be held on July 4th at Kuta Beach, one of Indonesia’s most developed and popular tourist locations. The first-time charity event includes 1.2K and 5K races under the supervision of the Balawista Surf Lifesaving Group. Similar to other island nations around the world where relatively few people learn how
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The 21st annual Championnat Provincial Eau Libre will be held on July 12th at Ile Notre-Dame (parc Jean-Drapeau) in Montreal. Events include the 1K and 2K races for 12-13 year olds and 1K, 2K, 5K and 10K races for older swimmers. Meet Managers Nicole Normandin and Michel Germain said that the Championnat provincial Eau libre
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Colin Hill and the production team at Nova International has put together an explanation and video of the Great Run and Great Swim history and scope of the endurance sports extravaganza here. 20,000 swimmers in this year’s series. Great stuff in Great Britain. Copyright © 2010 by Open Water Source
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Be careful. Watch for boats. Keep an eye out for Jet skiers. Swim with a buddy. Swim in groups. Never swim alone. These are safety tips known by all open water swimmers. If you have a coach, trainer, parent or friend who is willing to head down to the
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The Baykeeper TransBay Relay Benefit Swim is a Waterkeeper Splash Event. The Waterkeeper Alliance is a growing international network of nearly 200 local organizations that provides a voice for the world’s waters. The Waterkeeper Alliance, celebrating its tenth year in 2010, is hosting a series of on-the-water Splash events in a number of cities and
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