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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At American pool competitions, deck changing is prohibited. Also frowned upon at other events, deck-changing is often discouraged by race directors. But along the shorelines and coastal areas around the world, deck changing – or the act of wrapping a towel around the body in order to change into […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nothing was as close as the third-place tie between Alex Meyer and Sean Ryan at today’s USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Castaic Lake, California. Their hands touching the finish plate are shown above…barely. Individual split times were not taken at the USA Swimming National Open Water
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 16-year-old Becca Mann swam a brilliantly tactical race this morning in Castaic Lake, California to win the 2014 USA Swimming National 10 km Open Water Swimming Championships. Swimming smoothly and very controlled throughtout the entire race, Mann simply turned on her pool speed over the last 400 meters and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I can adapt to conditions that present themselves,” said 2012 Olympian and open water swimming veteran Andrew Gemmell, winner of the 2014 USA Swimming 10 km National Open Water Swimming Championships in Castaic Lake this Friday morning. And that he did as he earned the top spot to represent
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swim Long Beach, an ocean and pool swimming pod, and the Open Water Swim Club, had an early morning ocean practice around the Huntington Beach pier yesterday. The practice around the longest concrete pier on the West Coast of the Americas was a tune-up for the 64th annual Huntington
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The FKCC Swim Around Key West is the southernmost swim in the continental U.S. A 12.5-mile warm-water marathon race at the tip of Florida, the June 14th race draws all kinds of swimmers from around the world. Kerri Kanuga, a Canadian living in the Cayman Islands, will swim around
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Montana, known as the Big Sky Country, offers some excellent blue water open water swims. The LAKE Monsters and Mission Valley Aquatics are hosting the inaugural Lakeside Lighthouse Loop, a two-race open water competition held on the western shore of Flathead Lake on July 12th. Two courses are offered:
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Montana or the Big Sky Country offers some excellent blue water open water swims. The LAKE Monsters and Mission Valley Aquatics are hosting the 12th annual Water Daze on the southern shore of Flathead Lake in Montana. The 1.1-mile point-to-point crossing of Polson Bay is held on August 2nd.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lisa Batey is an American athlete, coach and licensed sports massage therapist living in Kanagawa, Japan. She coaches in Hayama that sits at the northern end of Miura Peninsula, facing Sagami Bay on the Pacific Ocean. With her idyllic training venue with a temperate climate, short cool winters, and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The youngest lady among the lead pack at tomorrow’s USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Southern California will undoubtedly be a Mann. As in 16-year-old Becca Mann from Clearwater, Florida. At the 2013 championships in Castaic Lake, Mann swam head-to-head over 3 hours against the toughest field
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