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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Frank Flowers will host the always magnificent 21st Annual Flowers One Mile Sea Swim on June 15th with a slew of Olympians participating as well as over $100,000 in gifts and prizes to give away to random winners. But the 2013 version will add races this year with the new Flowers International 5K and 10K […]
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As we travel around the world to observe open water swims, we learn of the magnificent cultures and creations of the local people. From incredibly creative origami in Tokyo to delicious gelato of Melbourne to the artwork made from conch shells in Turks & Caicos, and the magnificent architecture of the European nations, we are
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Social Kicking, A Leg Up On Catching Up Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While channel swimmers, distance swimmers and elite swimmers train exceedingly hard, pushing themselves lap after lap and mile after mile in the pool and open water, we always find it is a pleasure when an adult swimming coach or masters swimming
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Tom Shields, a former junior lifeguard and the record holder of the Huntington Beach Pier Swim, is looking forward to moving on from NCAA championships to becoming a professional swimmer with aims of representing the USA at the 2106 Rio Olympics. From swimming and body surfing in the Pacific Ocean in his native Huntington Beach,
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Kara Robertson has put open water swimming on the map in the middle of the American desert. She is hosting the U.S. Masters Swimming 10K National Open Water Swimming Championships along with a 5K and 1-mile open water swims in Lake Mead. The championships will be held on May 18th, but early bird registration ends
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Michigan State University Michael Wagner announced in the Journal of Fish Biology a discovery of an exceedingly rare two-headed shark that soon died. Magnetic resonance imaging found that the shark had two heads, two hearts and two stomachs, but the other organs were shared. Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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Tom Hanks in the Academy Awards Best Movie Forrest Gump said, “Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” Gump’s mother could have been referring to either the dynamic conditions in the open water – or the food swimmers are served when they visit Japan for
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When Darren Miller read the Daily News of Open Water Swimming article [here] about preparing and eating squid, he was reminded of his own journey with his brother Matthew to Japan when he successfully crossed the Tsugaru Channel. “My brother, Matthew, and I are quite fond of Japanese cuisine as we regularly dine on it
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Team F3 understands what makes for a great race experience. Marketing Manager Alice Hector describes the Thames Open Water Swim Series, “Based in the UK’s most famous water expanse, the series encompasses all distances and caters for all levels. We have full water cover, massage, hot drinks, MaxiFuel Nutrition, Red Bull, Music, Electronic Chip Timing
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Mother Nature and Father Time are two factors that generally do not run concurrent with the athletic performance and physiological nature of humans. That is, both Mother Nature and Father Time take their toll on the human body, performance of land-based athletes generally diminish as the years pass by. But at least some open water
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