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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Meredith Novack is the subject of a new mobile app via FanHero. The Honolulu-based Novack explains, “There are only a few professional athletes in the entire world that have their very own app – I am the first from Oahu. This app is a fan’s dream – it has […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Santorini Experience is open to registration. In addition to runs of 5 km, 10 km and 15 km, the swimming venue was Ancient Santorini (Thira), destroyed in 1,500 BC. The example of the Aegean civilization fits with what Plato said about the mythical land of the Atlases that
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlotte Brynn and others will participate in the new Skinner Island/Smuggler’s Cave Swim, an 18-mile (28.9 km) marathon swim organized by the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association. The 28.9 km marathon swim will be held on July 9th in Vermont’s Lake Memphremagog. “Skinner’s Island is an 18-mile smuggler
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Be Race Ready podcast episode #11 is posted online. Coach Gerry Rodrigues discusses the essentials of open water swimming from the requisite skills to the simplest sighting technique. Tower 26’s Rodrigues describes the need for sighting, changes in speed, pack swimming, take-out speed, buoy turns, drafting, and
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Courtesy of Butterfly Bob Wood, Darlington Masters Butterfly Bob Wood recently completed a 24 km self-escorted, self-circumnavigation of Koh Tao, Thailand, swimming freestyle 7 hours 56 minutes without an escort crew. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Photo courtesy of Roseli Johnson, Images by Roseli, Bermuda. Even since Captain Matthew Webb crawled out of the English Channel in 1875, the collective open water swimming community has continued to get better and better. Decades ago, the North Channel between Scotland and Northern Ireland, was considered a venue for only the very top echelon
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Courtesy of Adam Walker, Man vs. Ocean.
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Courtesy of Patrícia Farias de França from Leme beach to Pontal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the build-up to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Japanese 10 km marathon swim qualifiers Yasunari Hirai and Yumi Kida are being celebrated by the Japanese media. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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