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This morning, the Open Water Swim Club decided to build up a whole lotta lactic acid in order to work on fast finishes in short open water races this summer. The main set was a total of 4,200 yards, all done at various pace intervals depending on the speed and stamina of the masters swimming […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Samuel Richards, Jr. was an American open water swimmer who won the 1911 and 1912 Boston Light Swim. Richards won the 1912 race in a time of 5 hours 15 minutes when only 3 swimmers out of 42 entrants completed the race. He was a famed member of the
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In 1909, professional swimmer Alois Anderle completed the Boston Lighthouse Marathon Swim, but his victory was later expunged due to his walking experience on the course between the Boston Harbor Islands. According to Boston Light Swim director Greg O’Connor of the Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association, Anderle started out with eight other swimmers in America’s
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Without a doubt, open water swimmers – especially channel swimmers – are renowned not only for their physical strengths and stamina, but also for their mental capabilities. They spend hours and hours with much of their vision and hearing impaired swimming with their head down as they follow their escort pilot. They endure all kinds
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Saipan Swim Club’s 35th Annual Ocean Swim around the Tanks takes place on March 24th. The ocean swim follows a pool international meet that takes place on March 22nd – 23rd. The ocean swim was started by SSC’s founders Jean and Bill Sakovich and includes 4 different courses so that all levels and ages may
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Rose Pitonof will be inducted as an Honour Pioneer Swimmer at the 2013 International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame ceremonies in Cork, Ireland this October. The trail-blazing swimmer is the namesake for the Rose Pitinof Centennial Swim, a 17-mile swim in New York from Manhattan Island to Coney Island. In 1910 at the age of
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Prior to the 2013 Global Open Water Swimming Conference, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies and the WOWSA Awards coming to Cork, Ireland, Irish swimmers are gearing up for a busy summer. Owen O’Keefe reported on his blog that the 2013 Irish Marathon Swim Series will include a variety of events, several that
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Marilyn Morgan has swum all her life. Swimming is her passion and subject of her blog Consuming Cultures. She has an eye for how swimsuits has changed over the generations – from wool cover-ups to tight-fitting Speedos – and a writing talent to explain trends and shifts in styles based on the moral attitudes and
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Marilyn Morgan has swum all her life. Over the past 7 years, she has found a way to combine her life-long passion for swimming with her considerable talents for research and writing via Consuming Cultures. Morgan, an Archivist at the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women at that Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at
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Do you ever become bored while swimming an open water workout? Do you find yourself losing focus, with a wandering mind? Do you feel like you have been swimming for forty minutes, only to look at your watch and realize its been ten minutes? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re not
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