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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There were all kinds of people swimming over 24 hours in the English Channel recently. Stephanie Hopson finished her 24 hour 31 minute crossing on August 14th-15th. Deirdre Ward finished her two-way English Channel crossing in 27 hours 52 minutes on August 23rd-24th. But Mother Nature was most cruel […]
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Courtesy of Great Bear Swim in the central coast of British Columbia, California. For more information, read here including facing a grizzly bear and her cub during the Great Bear Swim.
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. Guri Bosch, a 6-year-old labrador retriever, completed the her second 5-mile Lake Willoughby Swim in Vermont on August 20th. Guri from Wallingford, Vermont had first participated in 2013, becoming the first canine to swim the length of the lake. Kayaking for Guri this
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are few people on the globe with the persistence and determination of Pat Gallant-Charette. Arguably, she may be among the most persistent in open water swimming history. She completed a swim across the English Channel on her third attempt, crossing in 15 hours 57 minutes in 2011. During
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers have an interesting and personal number of habits, idiosyncrasies, eccentricities, tricks and superstitions before heading offshore to do a channel swim, ice swim, marathon swim or open water swimming race. Some of them eat something special or drink something unique or do something personal or wear
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Photos courtesy of Scottie T Photography in Samoa. Right before the Samoa Swim Series, the Pacific Open Water Challenge is a 2-day series of races (10 km + 5 km) held in Samoa. Three visiting swimmers from New Zealand swept the top three positions at the 2016 Pacific Open Water Challenge: Christina Harris (Nelson) who
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The use of swim streamers in channel swims and marathon swims has been debated by a few. But, at the heart of the debate, we wonder, “What is really the practical difference between a channel swimmer who uses a swim streamer and a channel swimmer who swims between two
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Photo courtesy of Vito Bialla, Night Train Swimmers. We heard this morning of one of the toughest and most diligent training regimens in the contemporary open water swimming world. An accomplished marathon swimmer is starting to enter her taper period after months of mind-boggling training. Her goal: to swim 93 miles or 149 km. This
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eney Jones is returning again to the annual 9.6-mile Maui Channel Swim between the Hawaiian islands of Lanai and Maui. First started in 1972, the race is now in its 45th year. “It’s in my blood. My father Bumpy Jones finished first in the first year of the race.
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