Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In a year when she will be inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, Pilar Geijo will start her 9th annual 57 km Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda in her homeland of Argentina on February 4th. “This week is the first taper after 16 weeks […]

Courtesy of Maratón Acuática Río Coronda, Argentina. Cecilia Biagioli won the women’s division in the 2011 Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, arriving 5th overall less than one minute after Petar Stoychev, the overall winner. She will participate in the 44th edition on February 4th. The four-time Olympian remembers won the 2011 race where

Courtesy of Kaja Mitrenga, Hearing the Voice, Durham, United Kingdom. “Channel swimming is 80% mental, 20% the rest,” famously said Alison Streeter MBE, the Queen of the Channel® for her 43 crossings of the English Channel. Swimmers with limited visual and auditory perspectives in oceans and lakes are nearly always left to themselves to think

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With less than a week that has passed since Moldavian/Irish swimmer Ion Lazarenco Tiron who completed the Oceans Seven, Rohan Dattatrey More of India is currently preparing off the coast of New Zealand for his last channel of the Oceans Seven. More started his marathon swimming career at the

Portrait courtesy of Jan van der Poel, Varne Ridge Holiday Park, England. David Frantzeskou, the long-time proprietor of Varne Ridge Holiday Park that overlooks the English Channel, passed away after a long illness. Kinds words and beautiful memories are pouring in about a man who touched swimmers from around the world as they stayed at

Courtesy of Sara Kurch, Berkeley, California. Sara Kurch paid attention – very close attention – to the recent presentation by Bruckner Chase and Michelle Evans-Chase at the global GU headquarters in Berkeley, California. Her synopsis and take-aways of their joint presentation called Mindfulness And The Endurance Athlete are here. Copyright © 2008-2018 by World Open

Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. 24 individual Honorees will attend the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony that takes place on March 31st in England. Individuals from 17 countries will attend who rep​r​esent the generations of marathon swimmers from the late 1950’s to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games