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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Ranie Pearce of the South End Rowing Club in San Francisco has been knocking off channel swims and marathon swims around the world after her 50th birthday. She completed the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming with her 9 hour 53 minute circumnavigation in Group 3 of the 2014 […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Windy conditions and 11ºC water greeted some of South Africa’s most extreme swimmers, who gathered at Marina Martinique to take on the JBay Cold Water Classic. Seven swimmers started the 7.5 km swim, but only three managed to finish. “It was cold out there but I settled down and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eric Christensen is a 39-year-old American pool and open water swimmer from Florida. He set the overall record and the 35-39 age group record at the Lucky’s Lake Swim in Lake Cane, Florida. Christensen is a former University of Florida swimmer and NCAA All American as well as a
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Navy SEALs are renowned for doing things bigger than themselves and for others. That selfless mindset is constant across the battlefields and continues on in their personal and professional lives. SEALs for Sunshine is one example. The event is a marathon swim by 4 individual Navy SEALs across Maine’s
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. JC Malick‘s time for yesterday’s Manhattan Island Marathon Swim was 10 hours 43 minutes. “It was a tough slog in the Harlem River and I got held up for about 20 minutes by a departing Norwegian cruise line, but I am very proud of my crew Eri Utsunomiya and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In preparation for JC Malick‘s proposal to Lisa Hertz at the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, he designed a unique ring. “The ring Lisa always had in mind was an aquamarine, a gemstone that symbolizes the aqua color of the ocean and because of the sea values, it invokes including
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. America’s CBS 60 Minutes television crew has descended upon Cork, Ireland to film the renowned Cork Distance Week with a focus on Ned Denison and his intense physiological and psychological preparation for channel swimmers from around the world. It is rare that adults willingly subject themselves to pain and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. One of the most prolific writers and influential publishers in the swimming world, Laura Hamel, clearly does what she writes about: enjoy masters swimming and open water swimming. She and her son, Dirk Hamel, won the 2.4-mile Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim in Turks & Caicos last week. Dirk,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After Olympic champion Aaron Peirsol swam in today’s Newport Beach Pier-2-Pier Swim in Newport Beach, California, he dried himself off and went to work at a lifeguard tower. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Maui Channel Swim is an absolutely gorgeous and challenging 9.6-mile (15.4 km) ocean swimming relay race between the islands of Lanai and Maui in Hawaii. Each team has six swimmers who rotate at fixed intervals. It is one of the World’s Top 100 Open Water Swims and is
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