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“Those were the roughest conditions that I have ever seen,” described Grace van der Byl as she came ashore after spending over 100 hours on the Pacific Ocean with her Night Train Swimmer teammates. “We were being bounced around laterally and all over. It feels so surreal now that we are done. I am so […]
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Dave Holscher got it done. After the disappointment of trying to set the world record last year and coming up short, Holscher and his Night Train Swimmers re-tooled, re-plotted, and focused on a new plan. Today, 100 hours 28 minutes after starting in Gaviota State Park, the team swam onshore together near the San Diego
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Zach Jirkovsky was all smiles after walking ashore with his Night Train Swimmers after spending 4 days and 4 hours swimming from Gaviota State Park to San Diego. “I got a bit of chaffing on my right shoulders because of my beard [stubble],” said the designer from Ventura, California. “We got hit with some jellyfish,
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Luane Rowe’s mother was whipping her pink sweater from shore, cheering on her daughter and the Night Train Swimmers. “She is focused and does her job. The swimmers only requested pizza, beer, and champagne when they get ashore after swimming for more than 100 hours. Then Luane has to get back home and head to
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Phil Cutti had the honors to be the last swimmer in the water and led the Night Train Swimmers onshore after their 228-mile 100-hour ocean relay from Gaviota State Park to the San Diego Yacht Club. It was the Night Train Swimmers’ second attempt to break the 202-mile record set by the Ventura Deep Six
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“We saw a few whales, a few hammerhead sharks,” said Blair Cannon with his daughter at the finish of the Night Train Swimmers’ 228-mile, 100-hour 28-minute traverse down the California coast. “One of our swimmers bumped into a few sleeping dolphins. There were seals, one followed me while swimming along the Catalina Island coast, and
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The Night Train Swimmers came in at 7:29 pm on Monday night under a setting sun in San Diego Harbor, 228 miles from their start up the coast of California. The team – weary but smiling, exhausted but proud, sore but exhilarated – came ashore together after swimming 17 separate one-hour legs during their 100-hour
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“It was a good race. I am still shocked by the closeness,” describes Bill Ireland who was on the winning Veterans team in the 28-mile Ka’iwi Channel Swim. “The difference [between the 9:53 and 9:56 final times] was incredibly small. I assumed the two teams would have been an hour apart. The difference was about
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It is not every day – or many days really – that open water swimmers can meet high-ranking politicians. But Martina Grimaldi who won this weekend’s 30 km Ohrid Lake Swimming Marathon by only a few tenths of a second over Russia’s Olga Kozydub was able to meet with Dr. Gjorge Ivanov, the President of
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Chris Guesdon of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame reported on the upcoming Lake Toba Festival – World Super Swim, a series of circumnavigation relay swims around Samosir Island in North Sumatra, Indonesia in September. The 117.6 km World Super Swim is a series of 3 relay races over a 3-day period on September
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