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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Quint (a battle-toughened grizzled shark hunter played by Robert Shaw), Hooper (an experienced oceanographer played by Richard Dreyfuss), and Brody (a mild-mannered police chief played by Roy Scheider) had a famous scene in the movie Jaws where they discussed their different accidents and injuries in the ocean. Their joy […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Most open water swimmers train either regularly or occasionally in a pool while all professional marathon swimmers frequently train twice a day in their swimming pools. Governed by the pace clock, pushed by intervals, swimming in circle patterns, competitive swimmers know exactly how far they swim in a pool.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Charlene Boudreau, the Nutrition Consultant for USA Swimming who has served as Team Leader for numerous teams and sports with the United States Olympic Committee, makes it her job and passion to share healthy living and practical sense out of maintaining a healthy diet to support athletic ambitions. The
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Chloe McCardel‘s upcoming 103-mile marathon swim across the Florida Strait from Cuba to Florida will be done without any protective swimwear. She will face her journey like no one else has done before her over the last 40+ years. Susie Maroney and Skip Storch did their Cuba swims with shark cages. Penny Palfrey and Diana
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There will be a fiercely contested race within a race at the next World Cup event in Cozumel, Mexico. The race in Cozumel is serving as a world championships selection meet for a few countries. For example, open water swimmers from Canada are heading to tropical Cozumel in order
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Anna-Carin Nordin just jumped to the front of the pack with her successful 8 hours 17 minute crossing of the Cook Strait yesterday. Nordin now has 6 of the 7 Oceans Seven channel completed with a North Channel crossing scheduled for July. As she has been training hard through her winter in Sweden in cold
Anna-Carin Nordin Is Cooking And Heading North! Read More »
The Olympic 10K Marathon Swim was held in a flat, calm rowing basin in 2008 (Beijing) and a flat, calm lake in 2012 (London). But over the 4-year quadrennial, the winning times of the men significantly dropped from 1:51:51 to 1:49:55. The women’s winning time dropped from 1:59:27 to 1:57:38. While conditions were different and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The number of open water swimmers who have given TED presentations is few and far between: …Maarten van der Weijden, a leukemia cancer survivor who won the 2008 Olympic gold in the 10 km marathon swim. …Lewis Pugh, the pioneer swimmer and first person to swim up on Mt.
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Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild are organizing the first Ka’iwi Channel Swim this August and entries are pouring in. 28 miles across the Ka’iwi Channel from Kaluako’i on the west shore of Molokai to Sandy Beach on the east shore of Oahu. In a few words, it will be the gnarliest, riskiest, most difficult relay
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NEKOWSA (Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association) was established in Derby, Vermont in 2010 to promote and organize swims in the legendary lakes of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, a wonderfully beautiful part of the eastern United States. From the very beginning of the NEKOWSA, the passion and professionalism shown by Phil White and his
To Kingdom Come They Swim Read More »