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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sportswriter Laura Young features over 40 swimmers in her new book, In Solo, Yet Never Alone: Swimming the Great Lakes. Why would anyone swim the Great Lakes? Young delves deeply and profoundly into that question. Her book addresses the mindset of people who challenged themselves in the big water […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Triathlete and masters swimmer Terry Loftus of the Novaquatics Masters swam an excellent 2-loop 2.4-mile Nadadores Rough Water Swim in Dana Point along the California coastline today. He is the West Coast counterpart to his fast sister Shirley Loftus-Charley on opposite side of America. Shirley has won numerous national
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lexie Kelly won the Nadadores 2.4-mile Rough Water Swim held in Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point along the Southern California coastline this Saturday morning in 48 minutes 38 seconds. Carri Cook and Jen Schumacher finished second and third overall in the women’s division while The EC6 relay member
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While boats (of all kinds) have been the standard marine vessel for generations of open water swimmers, the evolution of movement of safety personnel on an open water swim has been important. The integration of boats, RIBs, IRBs, paddle boards, kayaks, surf skis (Jetskis), and stand up paddle boards
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As the open water swimming world continues to expand globally, we marvel as the potential for Africa’s growth. Similar to Asia and the Americas, open water swims are popping up in many of African locations. While cartographers attempt to make world maps as accurate as possible, the scale of
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephanie Tina Havelka, owner and creator of Sportkini® by ZsuZsi Athletic, is a sponsor of today’s Nadadores 2.4-mile Rough Water Swim in Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point along the Southern Californian coastline. “We decided to take the beauty of bikinis and the functional part of about athletic swimsuits
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Today’s Nadadores 2.4-mile Rough Water Swim will be held in Salt Creek Beach in Dana Point along the Southern Californian coastline. One of the event sponsors is a local ocean swimmer who knows the coastline and race course extraordinarily well. Through her Ober Reef Photography, Patsee Ober has been
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. California ultra-marathon swimmer Jamie Patrick has 3 months to go before his unprecedented Great Lake Swim. The swim date has been moved back to August 18th and the distance has been settled upon 71 miles between Milwaukee Bay and Ohio Street Beach in Chicago Harbor. The Wisconsin-to-Illinois swim is
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Paul Ellercamp of Oceanswims.com, seemingly forever an influential leader in the sport of open water swimming, always captures outstanding footage of ocean swimmers around Australia and elsewhere. At the Tamarama Ocean Swim in Australia, Oceanswims.com provided some excellent photography, especially of those who had a great start and a
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. American open water swimmer, event director and coach Suzie Dods of San Francisco, California has a motto, “The world is 75% water, swimming is a unifier.” She explains its origin. “I guess it just comes from my experience. Through swimming I have traveled to all sorts of different places
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