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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. William Reeves broke the record for the fastest crossing of the Great Salt Lake in Utah last June when he completed a 3 hour 10 minute swim from Antelope Island to Black Rock Beach. Reeves swam the 8.12-mile course faster than the previous record holder Gordon Gridley (set in
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Do you primarily breathe on the left side or right side? Do you prefer Maxim or Gatorade? Do you mostly practice in the pool or open water? Do you train solo or with teammates? Decisions regarding open water swimming are personal and are always subject to change. But some decisions in the open water swimming
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Norma Bastidas, a Mexican endurance athlete and mother, is attempting the world’s longest triathlon and is currently on her first swim leg – redefining what a strong human being and a woman is and can be. Starting in the Caribbean Sea in Cancún, Mexico, she will go through Mexico City, cross the Mexican-American border, head
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14 dramatically walked in through large surf and 14 successfully walked out. The 100% success rate for the 14 swimmers who participated in today’s 8 km Swim For Hope in South Africa was augmented by the record-breaking swims on both the men’s and women’s side. The tough extreme open water swim around Cape Point was
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From the shores of Mallorca, Spain, the SwimTrek Long Distance Training trips have helped many aspiring English Channel and marathon swimmers – newcomers and veterans – achieve their personal aquatic goals and helped open their eyes to different possibilities. An extraordinary benefit of these trips is getting to know and talk with Kevin Murphy. Murphy
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Event director Glenn Taylor and the organisers of the First National Kimberly Lake Argyle Swim provided some great training advice to the competitors in the upcoming 10 km and 20 km race in Lake Argyle in Western Australia. “What we practice becomes permanent. So if you are in the pool every day, swim 2.5 km
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Just as the Who’s Who of channel swimmers heads to Dover every summer and multitudes of triathletes head to Kona every October, the open water swimming crème de la crème of East Coast America came out to the inaugural Cold Water Challenge in Fairfield, Connecticut last November. Whether it is the International Winter Swimming Association,
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The Peruvian Olympic Committee (Comité Olímpico Peruano) announced Jacqueline Scarlet Pinillos Delgado and Jean Pierre Monteagudo Aragón (shown on left) will both represent Peru at the open water swimming races at the 2014 South American Games (X Juegos Suramericanos) in Santiago, Chile this coming week. The official website of the Games is here. There will