Being Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
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Rachele Bruni Kicks Off 2016 Where She Wants To Finish
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 能ある鷹は爪を隠す in Japanese is a proverb that can be translated to English as ‘A skilled falcon hides its talons‘. That is currently the case for many of the world’s fastest women in the open water. 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swimming finalists including Aurélie Muller, Sharon van Rouwendaal, Ana Marcela
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Alex Meyer Victorious In Viedma…Twice
Alex Meyer Victorious In Viedma…Twice Courtesy of WOWSA, Viedma, California. After winning the sprint race earlier in the week, 2012 Olympian Alex Meyer of the USA came back and won a close battle over 2016 Olympian and defending champion Simone Ruffini and his Italian 2016 Olympic teammate Federico Vanelli at the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming
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Butterflies Swimming In The 24 Hour Relay In SF
24 Hour Relay in SF 2016 from Lisa Amorao on Vimeo. Report courtesy of Suzie Dods, 24 Hour Relay in San Francisco, California. It was all difficult: 24 straight hours swimming as relay members in Aquatic Park in San Francisco, California. Non-stop swimming, napping and eating. But Madhuri Yechuri of India made it especially difficult
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Jumping In And Out Of 1.2°C Water In NYC
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Winter swimmers kept on getting in and out of the 1.2°C (34.3°F) water of the Hudson River at the 2016 United States Winter Swimming Association (USWSA) National Championships. But the swimmers were not quitting or calling it a day. They had not reached the limit of their potential; rather,
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Swim This, Swam That
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swam That Race is a 4-race open water swimming event held in Emerson Bay, a wind-protected bay near the southern tip of west Lake Okoboji in Iowa, U.S.A. 2.5 km, 5 km, 7.5 km and 10 km races in a rectangular course are held in the 75ºF (23.8ºC) waters
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2016 Big Chill Swim Highlights
Courtesy of Big Chill Swim, Windermere, England.
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Big Chill Swim 1000 Results: 1 km @ 6.4ºC
Courtesy of Big Chill Swim Winter Swimming Gala in Windermere, England. Windermere was downright inhospitable with strong winds, overcast skies, and 6.4ºC (43.5ºF) water temperatures. But the ice swimmers entered in the Big Chill Swim Winter Swimming Gala in Windermere, England only smiled and cheered one another on. There were no grumbles or gripes about
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Nothing Great Is Easy Across The Ocean
Courtesy of Ben Hooper, Swim The Big Blue. Only a very infinitesimal number of open water swimmers hope to do, plan and execute transoceanic swims. Each of these swims takes in extraordinarily large amount of funds, supporters, logistics and operational planning. Most of them require years of planning and fund-raising. As a result, many transoceanic
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