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Courtesy of Wallace J. Nichols. Wallace J. Nichols encouraged Blue Mind ambassadors, patrons and supporters to help build upon his Blue Mind movement by supporting the Blue Mind Movie. “If each of us preorders the DVD or digital download and brings one water-loving friend along, we’ll reach our goal easily.” Dr. Nichols wrote Blue Mind […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When swimmers ask us about a difficult swim or a long swim or an unprecedented swim, we ask them in return a variety of questions that include the following. Their detailed answers are quite telling about their comprehensive preparations. 1. Logistics a. Have you planned the logistics of the
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Courtesy of Wallace J. Nichols of Slow Coast, northern California. For more information about the coastline located north of Santa Cruz and south of Half Moon Bay in northern California, visit www.slowcoast.org.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Corinna Nolan from Bray, Ireland has been pushing herself to all sorts of extremes, physically and mentally. The Irish Ice Ironwoman completed an Ironman triathlon in Austria in 2015 and another Ironman triathlon in Barcelona in 2017. On January 27th 2017, she completed her first Ice Kilometer at the
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Courtesy of Nathan White, Swimming Canada. Olympic swimming coach Mark Perry has been taking open water swimmers to South Africa for decades – and has seen excellent outcomes as a result of racing at the aQuellé Midmar Mile in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal. The former national team coach of Great Britain is now the Swimming Canada’s Distance
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Bruce Wigo wrote an article in Swimming World Magazine about 2016 Olympic gold medalist Simone Manuel, 2008 gold medalist Cullen Jones, 2004 silver medalist Maritza McClendon, 2008 and 2000 and 2016 gold medalist Anthony Ervin, and 1988 Olympic gold medalist Anthony Nesty. There were few African American swimmers at the highest echelon of the pool
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Courtesy of Sandra Neilson-Bell, Austin, Texas. The only ‘downhill swimming race in Texas’ is the Cap 2k Open Water Race & Pledge Swim, a 2 km point-to-point course from Red Bud Isle toward the center of downtown Austin in Lady Bird Lake on April 29th. The 16th annual Cap 2k is listed in Austin’s Top
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Gulf of California 24P by Kip Evans with Sylvia Earle. The upcoming International Ocean Film Festival in San Francisco, California offers four days of documentary and educational films on March 8th – 11th. For tickets to the 15th anniversary, visit here. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Bailey Photo and Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. Renowned ice adventurer Ger Kennedy is visiting America with a talented contingent of experienced Irish ice swimmers including one of the fastest and most recognizable ice swimmers on the planet, 23-year-old Conor Turner. Turner finished second in the 1 km race and third
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