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Guila Muir was interviewed on Healthcare Whisperer on her Love Affair with Swimming. Guila Muir founded and runs Say Yes To Life Swims. This Seattle-based business provides open water swimming excursions from May to October in beautiful bodies of water in the northwest United States. Swim Excursion participants include from triathletes and pool swimmers trying […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When open water swimmers or triathletes head over to a training swim or competition in America and many other countries, they are bound to cross paths with one or more Starbucks locations. Starbucks, like other chain outlets, try to deliver the same drink every time anywhere. But there are
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Photo of Aurélie Muller, courtesy of Swimming World Magazine, California. Aurélie Muller was named Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year for 2015 by Swimming World Magazine. The 25-year-old swimmer from France has her motto “chase your dreams” tattooed on her right foot. Chasing she did in 2015 after she started to swim under coach
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Cover photo of Jordan Wilimovsky, courtesy of Swimming World Magazine, California. Jordan Wilimovsky was named Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year for 2015 by Swimming World Magazine. The redshirt senior from Northwestern University and Malibu, California was recognized for a trio of dominating performances against the world’s best competitors. The 21-year-old demonstrated his ability
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Article about RCP Tiburon Mile, courtesy of Swimming World Magazine. With the ebb tide the strongest it’s been in the history of the [RCP Tiburon Mile], Jordan Wilimovsky and Ashley Twichell successfully battled…read more here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today is the Orca Herne Bay to Watchman’s Island Swim, a 2.2 km open water swim that goes out and around Watchman’s Island in Herne Bay Reserve in New Zealand. The event offers the Orca Cup and miniatures plus vouches for the fastest non–wetsuit swimmers, the Wai Wai Shield
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Borut Strel operates Strel Swimming Adventure Holidays together with his father Martin Strel in the Mediterranean Sea, Croatia and western United States. Martin was recently inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in Southern California while Borut has handled the communications and logistics of his father’s long
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Benoît Lecomte walks into the Pacific Ocean to begin his 5,500-mile (8,851 km) transoceanic swim, he is going to have a medical, scientific and research team like no other in the history of the sport of open water swimming. It will be an unprecedented team of scientific luminaries.
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