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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Every channel swim – and certainly every channel of the Oceans Seven – is an unpredictable adventure where the dynamics of the oceans are always in flux. A swimmer cannot predict what the currents and winds will be out in the Cook Strait. The window of opportunity is completely […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Imagine swimming around an island or across a channel or in a massive open water race and being able to immediately and neurologically tap into information from the Internet on the currents, chop or competition? Within one generation, open water swimmers and triathletes may be able to think, swim
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Courtesy of Susan Moody Prieto of Sueño 88. On June 3rd, David Ogden, Mauricio Prieto, Luane Rowe, Richard Ernst, Shannon Navarro, and I tried to swim 100 miles across the Sea of Cortez – the fifth try in history. The morning of the swim the sea was a flat, turquoise lake and we felt lucky
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “Todo en mi vida gira en torno a la natación, es mi pasión“, says Lexie Kelly en route to another open water swimming competition in another country on another continent. Arguably the most well-traveled aquatic athlete on the planet, Kelly has visited Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, U.K., Spain, and Syria
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It was a beautiful course on a beautiful day for the inaugural 1.5 km and 4 km Palamós Challenge. Adrián González won the 4 km race in a dominating fashion while the leading women put on quite a show that came down to a photo-finish when Núria Ciuró and
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Courtesy of Borut Strel of Strel Swimming Adventure Holidays in Montenegro. Copyright © 2014 by Strel Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 16-year-old Tien Nguyen of Segerstrom Fundamental High School swims breaststroke and individual medley on her Southern California high school swim team. When she is not training and competing, she spends her time quietly, carefully and joyfully on the pool deck and in the bleachers with her grateful teammates. For
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Donal Hanrahan and Len Dunne are co-founders of Elivar, a product line of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals tailored specifically for athletes over the age of 35. Active as aquapreneurs, athletes, and event sponsors, their passion is contagious. They serve as sponsors of the Elivar Open Water Swim Series
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Matthew Moseley will attempt a 25-mile swim across Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. He has been training hard, long and fast under the guidance of coach Randy Soler where he has added ultra-short race-pace training (USRPT) to his long workouts. On Friday, he did a special workout, swimming past midnight
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Below is a first-hand report by Vito Bialla of Sueño 88‘s attempt to swim across the 163 km Sea of Cortez. “Back on shore. In brief, we left under perfect conditions at 9 am making great speed. Wind filled in for normal evening breeze at 10 knots that night.
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