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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 8th annual Charles River One-mile Swim will attract hundreds of people and plenty of local press about the swim that encourages and celebrates the return of public river swimming [see here]. Race Director Kate Radville explains, “The Charles River Swimming Club was founded in 2005 with the dual […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The New York Times reported on mechanical doping in the sport of competitive cycling [read here]. The Times reports, “The first confirmed case of mechanical doping surfaced this year when a tiny motor and battery were found inside a Belgian cyclist’s bike…suggestions that top riders are rigging their bikes
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of Google’s Doodles that celebrates Earth Day 2016 [shown above] reminds us of Lewis Pugh‘s mind-bending, mind-boggling, mind-shifting 1 km swim at the geographic North Pole. Prior to Pugh’s swim in 2007, we thought of the North Pole as the snow white tundra top of the globe. Just
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Courtesy of Jane Munday, Port to Pub, Western Australia. Photos courtesy of Freestyle Photography. Four members of the Smoothy family competed in the Port to Pub marathon swim’s inaugural year in the Rottnest Channel. Father Martin (55), middle son Samuel (17) and youngest daughter Esther (16) completed the 25 km race while eldest son Luke
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Guy Cohen is training like he has never trained before. His passion comes from the heart. “The swim is now less than two months away,” explained Cohen to coach Ori Sela of Swim West. Sela and his swim buddies have pushed him to swim 170 km (106 miles), mostly
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We love how swimming in the open water enables – profoundly stimulates – us to think deeply and randomly about many things. Isolated from the stresses and noises, both figuratively and literally, of the dryland, our mind wonders, both aimfully and aimlessly. Dryland athletes drive to the mountains, head
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carbon-neutral relays are open water relays that have a net zero carbon footprint. Carbon-neutral relays rely on human power as opposed to motorized escort boats. Examples include open water relays that are escorted by outrigger canoes or kayaks only. The carbon-neutral relays were coined by Doug Woodring and were
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In addition to the Fédération d’Haïti, l’Association de Natation Haïtienne et de Sauvetage (Haitian Aquatic Sports and Life Saving Federation), Fédération Sénégalaise de Natation et de Sauvetage (FSNS or Senegal Swimming & Lifesaving Federation) is one of the few national governing bodies that combines competitive swimming with open water
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