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Haiku To The Yacker Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In celebration of Be Kind To Your Yacker Week, Steven Munatones of the World Open Water Swimming Association penned the Haiku To The Yacker. at night alongside darkness on the left and right my lifeline and guide Copyright © 2008 – 2013 by World Open […]
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In celebration of Be Kind To Your Yacker Week, Phil White (aka Flipperless Fil) of Derby, Vermont and the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association penned the Ode To My Yacker. Yacker, my Yacker, wherever we roam You water and feed me and guide my way home Without you I’m nothing, a lost feckless soul
Many people purposefully do not publicize or announce their swims for various reasons. Most people simply like keeping their personal goals to themselves and feel no need to publicly announce their athletic dreams, even if they have a website, blog or online social media presence. Other people do not publicly announce their swims in advance
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Most recently, Jack Bolas was the first American professional runner to win a race in bespoke spikes. Developed by New Balance, the spikes on the bottom of his specialty running shoes were custom-made using a combination of in-shoe sensors, force platforms embedded in the track, high-speed cameras, and 3-D printers.
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Bulgarian documentarist Ivan Tsanov published this photo of the participants of the first Galata-Varna Swimming Marathon in the Black Sea in Varna, Bulgaria back in the summer of 1926. Tsanov who documents much of swimming – both pool and open water – in Bulgaria cannot find the names of these obviously fit pioneers of the
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Donal Buckley reported on how the introduction of PED (performance enhancing drugs) by the World Anti-Doping Agency will affect all open water swimmers (read here). Among the various issues Buckley raises, one sticks out in our opinion. He writes, “…Though not yet ratified, it’s likely that caffeine will have its threshold set as concentrations in
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Ocean advocate and pioneer swimmer Lewis Pugh is up to something big. Something major. Something historic. It has got to be humongous to top his swims up at 5,500m altitude on Mount Everest and his swim across the North Pole. In both swims, Pugh called attention in a dramatic way to climate change is impacting
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Ryan Cochrane to join Bobsleigh Canada in his post-Olympic swimming career
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Lexie Kelly from Long Beach, California explains first-hand about her second race as a professional marathon swimmer at the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda in Santa Fe, Argentina. “…After a full day, I began throwing up, became feverish, and
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Who said this and what was being referred to? “…the greatest lesson to be learned which I have always felt, is the value of safety and preparedness. The ocean is an unpredictable environment with so many elements out of your control. But at the same time, there are many variables in our control that we
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