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Courtesy of Darren Miller, Team Forever. Team Forever will host the 4th Annual Three Rivers Marathon Swim (3RMS) on September 23rd. “This unique open water swimming event benefits Team Forever, which donates 100% of the 3RMS profit to the Forever Fund,” explains race visionary and organizer Darren Miller. “The fund benefits local families in need […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dan Simonelli will be one of the 12 swimmers participating in the Pan-American Colibrí Swim, a 10 km cross-border swim from California to Tijuana, Mexico on May 5th. While the other swimmers come from as far away as South Africa and Israel, Simonelli is the only local swimmer.* He
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Faye Poenisch presents Bruce Wigo of the International Swimming Hall of Fame with the poster and a cigar that Fidel Castro left behind after visiting her husband Walter‘s escort boat that would make him the first person to complete a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida. At the age
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guided visualization, mindfulness and meditation are practices used by many endurance athletes. But there will be no one who willingly places himself in such extreme isolation in the open water as will Ben Lecomte in his upcoming transoceanic stage swim from Tokyo to San Francisco. Lecomte describes his own
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Patti Bauernfeind is planning a swim across Loch Ness in Scotland. She is brutally honest about the swim. “I’m very excited and intimidated by this swim. My window is August 12th – 17th. I got lucky with the snowpack this year in California so I will be able to
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jacqui Hargrave is a British open water swimmer from Yorkshire who aiming to complete a swim across Windermere in the Lake District of UK. This is her story about her journey…read Open Water Woman here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swim Around Lido Key 2017 in Sarasota, Florida kicks off the 2017 United States Masters Swimming national open water swimming championship season. Race founder and director David Miner explains the sold-out race in its third year, “The race is a U.S. Masters Swimming National Championship race with 140 solo
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Courtesy of Ranie Pearce, Molokai Channel, California. Ranie Pearce describes her shark encounter with an 8-foot and 10-foot tiger shark during her Molokai Channel attempt on July 2nd 2016. “I had always heard the advice, ‘Don’t panic’ and ‘Punch them in the nose’ when a shark encounters a shark. I knew that the two sharks
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Courtesy of Olympic Channel on Poliana Okimoto of Brazil.
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