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For 32 days, Sara Hajdu served as the First Mate and Chef on Jennifer Figge‘s latest continuous stage swim from Cape Verde off the western coast of Africa to Antigua in the Caribbean. As Figge swam a total distance of 257.5 nautical miles (477 km) over the month-long traverse across the Atlantic Ocean, Hajdu keep […]
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Hundreds of ambitious teenagers and young adults are descending upon Castaic Lake near Santa Clarita, California to participate in the 2013 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships and Fran Crippen Sunset Mile. A few of them are odds-on favorites to swim in the lead pack, a handful of others have a realistic chance to
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It seems that open water swimmers can so easily make friends from different cultures and countries. Learning languages is a proven way to improve your memory. According to studies, the more languages you know, the less probability you will have cognitive problems later in life. While swimming is a great way to stay agile physically,
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There are nearly 250 swimmers, coaches, pilots, organizations and groups inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF). The inductees fall into different categories with different criteria for selection and eligibility considerations. The nominees under consideration in all categories should be international in their support and/or conduct of the Sport of Marathon Swimming
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Dan O’Connor is used to swimming in warm water, very warm water. So when he joined his teammates and friends swimming around Naples Island in Long Beach, California for his first (relatively) cold water swim, he was uncomfortable. As soon as he got out of the water, he dried off and immediately laid down on
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59-year-old John Kuzmkowski is still swimming over 10,000 meters per day – every day – and is hanging on to the leader of the U.S. Masters Swimming Go The Distance program. Kuzmkowski, a small business owner and dedicated swimmer from the Allegheny Masters Team in Pennsylvania, is 59 years old and is nearly going stroke-for-stroke
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Researchers asked 26 college swimmers to swim 200m freestyles under different conditions in order to test if swimming with music helps swimmers go faster. In a study entitled Psychological, psychophysical, and ergogenic effects of music in swimming published in the July issue of Psychology of Sport and Exericse, Jasmin Hutchinson and her colleagues asked the
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This August at the Swim4Freedom event, Dan Projansky will repeat for the fourth time his 8.2-mile (13.2 km) butterfly swim across Geneva Lake in Wisconsin. His goal, besides sore shoulders, is to raise money for The Special Operations Warrior Foundation. Projansky’s swim is to support the Warrior Foundation that provides a college education to every
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Sitting in an escort boat observing Penny Palfrey attempt to swim 72 miles between the islands of Oahu and Kauai, we knew the distance was outlandishly far. If successful, Palfrey would rewrite all possibilities of channel swimming in Hawaii. But for gigantic blooms of box jellyfish that arose to the surface at sunset and twice
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Broken Top is an dormant volcano sitting in the center of the state of Oregon, nestled within the Three Sisters Wilderness. When we heard stand-up paddle boarders have discovered this geological wonder and regularly drive up within 5 miles (8 km) of the glacial lake at 9,000 feet (2,743m) to then hike the rest of
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