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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 59-year-old Denise Hearst of the Conejo Valley Masters won the January 2017 Southern Pacific Masters Swimming Swimmer of the Month for winning both the 2016 Southern Pacific Masters Swimming Open Water Series and Postal 400 Kick. The Southern Pacific Masters Swimming Open Water Series included the Castaic Lake Open […]
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Courtesy of Hank Wise, Swim Focus, California. Hank Wise talks about his version of a perfect swim in Huntington Beach, California: “The conditions are cloudy and extremely windy. Windy as can be coming from the north about 25 to 35 miles per hour, preferably at the tail end of a storm – with the wind
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Courtesy of Pinnacle Podcast by Gu Energy. The Pinnacle Podcast is an online discussion with athletes, coaches, and nutrition experts across the spectrum of endurance sports. Hosts Fatty and Yuri explore the inspirational stories behind athletic feats, delving into insights from their guests’ lifestyles and mindsets. This week, Bruckner Chase is interviewed. Listen to the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Many competitive open water swimmers generally keep their head up around turn buoys when swimming in large packs. As the pace slows around the turn buoys, the space between the swimmers becomes more narrow and elbows and feet can hit other swimmers’ heads, faces and torsos. With the head
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Patty Hermann, a 57-year-old from Houston, Texas, is entered into this year’s Tampa Bay Marathon Swim in Florida. This will be her fourth visit to the 24-mile race. “I did it twice on relays and last year as a pace swimmer for Ranie Pearce. I’m tackling this with Martin
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Courtesy of Andre Slade, OceanFit, Australia. Lia Trebilcock had the opportunity to teach students from Nepal about the beauty and risks of open water swimming in a special OceanFit program at the request of the Hamro Institute of Business Technology. Her story is here. Copyright © 2008-2017 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, hosts a number of open water swimming competitions. Because of its seafront orientation, we had hoped that open water swimming would have been added to the 2022 Commonwealth Games. But after Durban was awarded the Commonwealth Games in 2015
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mark Sheridan recently received the Diamond Jubilee Special Award from the British Long Distance Swimming Association for his 2016 crossing of Lake Geneva. What is remarkable about Sheridan’s 69 km crossing of Lake Geneva is his solo marathon swim of 33+ hours was not unique. A vast majority of
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