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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The two-day Russian Polar Olympics took place in a frozen lake outside Tyumen, Murmansk where organisers cut two 25m pools in the ice with two lanes each. The water temperature was nearly as cold as possible hovering just above 0°C. Cape Town open water swimmers Monika Hayes (50) and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nick Glendinning is a 47-year-old British open water swimmer who trains year-round in the sea with his follow Felixstowe Swimscapes in Suffolk. Last week, he became the twelfth person in history to complete the Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims (Triple Break). When he completed the 7.5 km Robben
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Olympic open water swimming debuted in a rowing basin in Beijing and was then showcased in the equally calm Serpentine in London. Next the Olympic 10 km marathon swim will be held in potentially rough water in Copacabana Beach during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Next will come the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Due to the City of San Diego’s La Jolla Cove renovation project and new Lifeguard Tower construction, the 84th La Jolla Rough Water Swim will be cancelled this year. Originally, the City’s construction schedule was projected to be complete before the September 7th event, but construction has been delayed.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the 30 adventurists at the first leg of the 4-day S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge in Arizona, the who’s who of the marathon swimming world participated. All are ambassadors of aquatics, emissaries of endurance, operatives of the open water. These people mean business. Everyone is special, but there was one
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Correction: In yesterday’s article on the female record holder of the International Self-Transcendence Marathon-Schwimmen across Lake Zurich in Switzerland, Patti Bauernfeind was listed as the record holder. While Bauernfeind is the fastest women over the age of 40 in the 26.4 km marathon swim (7 hours 53 minutes), the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming coaches have knowledge about physiology, training methodologies, nutrition, hydration, racing strategies, marine life, the marine environment, marine conditions, and the psychology of the swimmers who they coach. But sometimes they combine their experience of psychology and the mindset of their swimmer in a dynamic environment and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. John Ratey, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and renowed author of Spark – The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, is an inquisitive and learned advocate of the relationship between exercise and the brain’s performance. In Spark, Dr. Ratey shows how
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Defeating Oceans Seven is the documentary of Stephen Redmond‘s long, hard-fought, community-supported achievement of completing 7 of the world’s most renowned channels and straits: English, North, Catalina, Molokai Tsugaru, Cook, and Gibraltar despite incredible odds against him. In the relaxed, climate-controlled comfort of a theater, director Rouven Blankenfeld and
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