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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Event director Kitty Tetreault and the volunteers of the Swim Across America Boston Harbor Swim are looking forward to a big day next Friday. On Friday, their 22-mile open water swimming relay around the Boston Harbor Islands brings together 75 swimmers and a massive fund-raising effort on behalf of the Perini Quality of Life Clinic […]
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Some swimmers with significant means build a pool on their property and others invest in an Endless Pool. But open water swimmer and coach Eney Jones is one in tune with nature…and goes a step further. In her front yard in Colorado, Boulder Creek sits there in the foreground of the majestic Rocky Mountains. Then
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Aflac is by far the largest provider of supplemental medical insurance in the United States. The large American insurance company underwrites a wide range of insurance policies and is well-publicized in the U.S. on television commercials with a talking duck. It seems that the famed Aflac talking duck showed up in Lake Cane to swim
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Grace van der Byl kicked off the record era in the Catalina Channel last year with her 7 hour 27 minute crossing from Catalina Island to the California mainland. Now the As Seen On TV relay of Barbara Held, Marc Horwitz, Ray Meltvedt, Julian Rusinek, Lynn Kubasek and Roni Hibben set another record across the
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The 4th annual Turks & Caicos Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim is coming up on July 6thtomorrow. Big red starfish, huge conch shells, and the occasional eagle ray gliding along the bottom are potential distractions for the participants of the fourth annual Race for the Conch Eco-SeaSwim. The event features 2.4-mile and 1-mile races, as
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Whether it is passing under the finish archway in a mass participation swim like the Great North Swim, or a slow crawl up on the rocks after a channel swim in Catalina, how swimmers feel when they step up on the shore can widely vary. At that moment of completion, some athletes free elation, others
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When you stand on the seashore or coast line before an open water swim, do you really observe what the open body of water is doing and know what exists below the surface? Do you understand the possible marine life that lives in the depths in the area? Do you know what the currents are
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We are supposed to eat healthfully: lots of vegetables, no salty snack foods, and limit the carbohydrates. That is all fine and good, but it is so fun to eat the good stuff: the sweet stuff, the salty stuff, the greasy stuff. And those foods especially taste good after a long, hard workout: blueberry pancakes,
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Of all the open water swimming events to be held during the recent past and foreseeable future, we cannot imagine a swim with a higher level of risk and inherent danger than the 86 km Bering Strait Relay Swim scheduled for July 28th. 40 swimmers including the swimmers listed below from 14 countries will attempt
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Phil White and 11 fellow open water swimmers established the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association (NEKOWSA) to promote and coordinate open water swims in the gorgeous lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a wonderfully peaceful part of the eastern United States. The clarity of the lakes in Vermont rival any of those throughout
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