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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alex Meyer knows how to come back. He came back from a broken clavicle to finish a gutsy tenth at the 2012 London Olympic Games 10 km marathon swim. He came back from deep within the pack to win his previous USA Swimming National 10 km Open Water Swimming […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is not often that excellent amateur swimmers or fast masters swimmers can race head-to-head against professionals. But the 20.5 km BCT Gdynia Marathon Swim is looking for experienced and proven amateurs to test themselves against the following professional swimmers: · Sebastian Karaś (Poland) · Jose Luis Larrosa Chorro
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stroke by stroke, mile by mile, hour by hour, day by day, month by month. That is what is takes in training and preparation for a successful Great Lake Swim. Off camera and behind the scenes, Jamie Patrick‘s 71-mile (114 km) solo traverse along the shorelines of Lake Michigan
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Courtesy of Darren Miller of Team Forever who gave the 2014 commencement speech at Penn State Altoona in Pennsylvania. Besides his full schedule of motivational speeches and open water swims, Miller is also organizing the Three Rivers Marathon Swim, a 30 km event held in the Ohio River, Allegheny River, and Monongahela River in Pennsylvania.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A Renaissance man often refers to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term describes the great thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon. So if
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A Renaissance man is often applied to the gifted people of the Renaissance era (from the 14th to 17th century) who sought to develop their full intellectual, artistic, social and physical capabilities. The term often describes the great thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo Galilei, and Francis Bacon. So if that term was used
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The inaugural Great Pacific Race, a 3,862 km rowing race from California to Hawaii, is promoted as “the biggest baddest human endurance challenge on the planet.” While that is a statement that ultra-marathon runners, channel swimmers, mountaineers, endurance cyclists and race drivers can easily debate, we tend to agree.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Harvard man, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honour Swimmer, open water swimming visionary, environmentalist, race organizer, Jim Doty was a man of many talents, legendary work ethic who dedicated much of his adult life to promoting open water swimming. The third annual James Doty Memorial Mile Swim will
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Wade of Associated Press wrote an article that was reported by ABC News…that continues to imply that the conditions in Rio de Janeiro for marathon swimmers and triathletes are dangerously dirty and unsafe for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Wade reports on the obviously polluted conditions of Guanabara
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The beautiful 2 km course of the Round Christiansborg Swim around the Danish Parliament Christiansborg starts in the harbour basin at The Black Diamond. This is the national library in the heart of the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. Swimmers are divided into heats with a minimum age of 15
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