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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. How often is an athletic record held by a 49-year-old woman? How often is an athletic record held by a person with multiple sclerosis? How often is an athletic record held by a person who had been blind? Over the course of humanity, no one has swam further in […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Susan Simmons, a Canadian swimmer with Multiple Sclerosis, and Alex Cape, will each attempt a 105 km (62.5-mile) swim across Cowichan Lake in British Columbia, Canada beginning on July 31st. If the marathon swimming pair realize their dream, their tandem swim will be the longest solo swim in fresh
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Lee Boyce in Men’s Journal explains, “If you want to burn fat, you need workouts that are brutal, but short lived. Most metabolic conditioning workouts geared for fat loss allow the body to accumulate lactate (the “burn”), and keep the heart rate up. Cover these bases, and you burn fat — period.” While open water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lisa Stansbie and Mihalis (Michael) Koumbouzis announced The Minoan Trail, a series of beautifully intriguing coastal and cave swims along the coast of Sfakia region in south Crete. “It has taken us [The Big Blue] two years of investigating and planning to offer a unique experience in Crete, Greece’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bridgette Hobart didn’t take long to gather quite a following on her unprecedented 11-stage 167-mile Nazareth College Finger Lakes Challenge (or The 5 Majors & The 6 Minors Swimming for a Cause). After her first 15-miler across Canandaigua Lake on July 11th, Hobart finished her second swim across Keuka
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Red Bull celebrated the lifestyle, mindset and athleticism of beach lifeguards in its Red Bull Surf and Rescue competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Surf and rescue began with a squad of volunteer watermen in the 1800s who worked the beaches to keep safe the growing number of visitors
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers have a great ability to multi-task as they balance their work, family and sport in what usually amounts to very long days that started out before the sun rises and ends long passed the sun sets. But there is one particular long swim that will be
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Courtesy of Rowdy Gaines at the Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim in Turks & Caicos. I waited for her to come around the corner…and waited and waited. After about an hour, I could see this small dot with a boat right next to her swimming down the beautiful shoreline of Turks & Caicos. I realized
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ice swimmers take it literally in South Africa. Six tons of ice will be dumped into the Hertzelia Constantia Swimming Pool in Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa on July 26th in order to reduce water temperature to below 5°C. With those purposefully engineered water temperatures, swimmers can
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Courtesy of Gordon Gridley, Bear Lake, Utah. Fifteen soloists completed the annual 7-mile Bear Lake Monster Swim, across the width of Bear Lake despite some very rough conditions. “75 swimmers to date have successfully completed swimming the width of Bear Lake,” says Gordon Gridley. “Also, Triple Crown swimmer, Joelle Beard completed her fifth crossing to
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