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Courtesy of Devon Clifford, Lake George Marathon Swim, New York. I came across a quote recently that resonated with me deeper than I could articulate. I simply read it. I felt it. George A. Sheehan was a physician and a runner. He said, “To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. James Savage, who was the youngest swimmer to complete a round-trip Alcatraz Island swim, admitted that the recent RCP Tiburon Mile was his most difficult open water race to date…by far. But he loved it. Absolutely loved it. “James is always up for a challenge,” said his mother Jillian
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Prior to the RCP Tiburon Mile from Angel Island to the mainland city of Tiburon in San Francisco Bay, 2008 Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain had a few words to say about the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 10 km marathon swimming venue on Copacabana Beach
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eva Morrison who passed away in 1985, was an American swimmer and a hospital librarian from the Boston area who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1973 as an Honour Swimmer. She had quite the career. She completed her first open water swim (8
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lynne Cox has come out with her sixth book*, Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart. Amazon describes her latest gem as, “…a powerful book about super athleticism and human frailty, about invincibility and the sudden (mind-altering) repercussions of illness, and about the triumph of spirit, surrender,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. An interview of Lexie Kelly was published in Headliners Magazine. She admits, “Marathon swimming has made me strong both physically and mentally.” But the native Californian had already done 100×100 five days in a row as a teenager in high school at her age group swimming program. “We used
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Melissa Dahl, an American writer and editor for The Science of Us, writes about the uniqueness of open water swimming among endurance sports in her latest article for the New York Magazine. Read about the data she uncovered and recently published by exercise researcher Beat Knechtle about marathon swimming and the perspectives of channel swimmers
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Courtesy of Mányoki Attila, Hungary. Magda Molnar is a Hungarian open water swimmer who peaked in the early 1940s. Decades after her career culminated in Lake Balaton, she was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Swimmer in 1985. She swam initially with the MUE Club and at the FTC
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Photos and explanation courtesy of Elliot Karlan Photography, San Francisco, California. This sequence shows the swim and run-up-the-beach-to-the-finish at the 2016 RCP Tiburon Mile from Angel Island to the mainland city of Tiburon (meaning shark in Spanish) in San Francisco Bay. It shows the significance of a running sprint to the finish. Olympic silver medalist
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