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Car racing has advertisements all over the car and its driver’s uniform. Basketball players wear the shoes of their sponsors. And celebrities subtly or blatantly showcase products and clothes of companies that they are financially committed to. But swimmers, especially open water swimmers, have many fewer opportunities to promote and push their sponsors. With their […]
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Whether it is the 500-yard freestyle or the 1500m in the pool, University of Michigan senior-to-be Sean Ryan is faster than Harvard University alumnus Alex Meyer in every distance and every event in the pool. But eliminate flip turns and throw in a bit of salt water and turbulence, and the tables turn. In the
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Captain Tim Johnson attempted to solve one of the most vexing problems in open water swimming. It has to do with swimming around curves in river swims. The question is which is faster: cutting the corner or swimming out with the faster current on the outside edge? For swims like the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim
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Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six people or fewer steps away from any other person in the world. That is “a friend of a friend of a friend…” statement can be made to connect any two people on earth with a maximum of six steps. We know this
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Murray Cox reminds the global marathon swimming community that the last swim in Sydney, Australia took place this Sunday. The South Head Roughwater Swim is an annual 10 km marathon swim from North Bondi Beach heading along the coastline to South Head, then into Sydney Harbour with a finish at Watsons Bay in Australia. The
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The II MARNATON eDreams Cup 2013 in Formentera, Spain is back. After a successful inaugural edition in 2012, Marlén González López announced the MARNATON eDreams Cup 2013 in Formentera, Spain. MARNATON is a project and brand created by Miguel Rahola together with Mirentxu Vignau and a host of other open water swimming collaborators in the
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We fondly recall the lecture that Captain Tim Johnson gave at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City, called Swimming in the Stream. We learned a tremendous amount of basic and advanced information on how to best swim around a peninsula and other situations that open water swimmers find themselves in different
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We fondly recall the lecture that Captain Tim Johnson gave at the Global Open Water Swimming Conference in New York City, called Swimming in the Stream. We learned a tremendous amount of basic and advanced information on how to best swim around a peninsula and other situations that open water swimmers find themselves in different
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In an imaginary fantasy world, what would happen if there were no H2O in open bodies of water? What if the liquid element in the aquatic world were something other than water? We have some ideas: If the open water world consisted of chocolate milk, it would be hard to see under the surface, but
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For open water swimmers in warm weather locations, sunscreens are almost as ubiquitous as goggles and Vaseline. With so much exposed skin, the decision on the exact type of sunscreen is based on availability, price, amount of zinc oxide, and a variety of other factor. These are the estimated blockage of the sun’s harmful UVA
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