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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. Open water butterflyer Brian Suddeth was featured in the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition this month. “I’ve used the activity tracking website called The President’s Challenge for years,” said IT specialist Suddeth who was featured in the President’s Council on Physical Fitness Get Inspired program. Suddeth explains,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Red Bull follows and reports on all kinds of adventures. One of the adventures that looks as picturesque as it is dangerous is waterfall descents by kayakers. These adventurists literally kayak over and down waterfalls…from increasingly greater heights From our perspective, waterfall kayak descends are as risky an open
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At the same time, the Americans are battling it out for a precious few spots on the USA Swimming national open water swimming teams, the French are doing the same in Sète in the south of France. Stéphane Lecat, the Directeur de L’Eau libre of Fédération Française de Natation
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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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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The South Jersey Triathlon Club invites swimmers and multi-sport athletes to honor and celebrate the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet when a band of local patriots outmaneuvered the British forces in a strategic military victory on July 29th 1776. Swim the Battle of Turtle Gut Inlet is a 0.5-mile
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Collage artist Eugenia Loli creates unique works that combine all sorts of images including water which we find fascinating. Her Farscapes collection is here. Her New Mythology collection is here. Three Minutes to Nirvana collection is here. Fabulous Gentlemen collection is here. The Objective Objectivity collection is here. The
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic and world championship medalists Andrew Gemmell, Alex Meyer, and Haley Anderson will headline the list of open water stars at Castaic Lake next weekend at the USA Swimming Championships. But competition in the flat, warm-water lake in Southern California is not only for the fastest and fittest. Ron
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Castaic Lake will be the site to watch next Friday, the 13th. The always competitive 10 km USA Swimming Open Water National Championship race will serve as the 2014 U.S. Trials for the American teams at the Open Water Pan Pacific Championships, the Open Water Junior Pan Pacific Championships,
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