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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Minus. Negative. -0.7ºC. Those kinds of really, really cold water competitions are coming to a conclusion with the end of winter. Golden Sands Cup Bratislava is a 500m and 1 km winter swimming competition held in Wakelake in Bratislava, Zlaté piesky in Slovakia. But with the expected water temperatures […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open Water Challenge is an inaugural two-race ocean swimming competition held in Paseo Bahia Marina in Aguadilla on the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico on April 17th. Swim 1 km in the day (Nadas de Dia) or swim 500 meters at night (Nadas de la Noche). Copyright © 2016
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Courtesy of Art Marcela Alexandrescu from Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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Courtesy of Lynn Howarth from Glasgow. Artwork is inspired by open water swimmer Kim Lane as part of Lynn Howarth’s new pastel series on swimming.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swedish Ultraman world champion Jonas Colting will start his 8-stage 120 km charity stage swim in Thailand called Swim Around Phuket. His circumnavigation around Phuket will raise funds for the Yaowawit School, a government-approved boarding school for children from underprivileged families, initially founded to help children who were victims
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Unattached is the second book written by Ildiko Szekely, one of the world’s fastest butterfly swimmers in the masters swimming commmunity and an open water swimmer from Beverly, Massachusetts. “True happiness is a conscious decision.” These words, spoken by her grandmother on a bus ride from Budapest to Felsogod,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Back in 1993 in Okinawa under the supervision of Professor Ishikawa, we tried to monitor our caloric intake and heart rate throughout a 38 km ocean swim between the islands of Ishigaki, Iriomote, and Taketomi. With a halter holding a wireless monitor taped to our chest, the device was
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Courtesy of Adam Walker, Tsugaru Channel, Japan. Each would hurt, especially after 15 hours 31 minutes of the washing machine effect. Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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