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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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When preparing for an open water swim, the first rule of the field of play is to Expect the Unexpected. There are so many dynamic variables inherent in the open water that swimmers have no control over. Conversely, there are things entirely within the swimmer’s realm of control. It is extremely important for the swimmer
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Paramedic and triathlon veteran Will Rogers of Canada wants to help. He is telling a story – about how to stop exploitation of children in Canada – while embarking on a long journey in the water, on foot and on a bicycle. Along his route, including his most recent 13.5-mile solo lake swim across the
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International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame member of the Board of Directors Neville Smith of Zwemza reported that Christian Reichert won Friday’s FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race in Eilat, Israel over 30 other men. The Germany police officer finished first in a quick 1 hour 53 minutes 29.5 seconds in a race that
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International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame member of the Board of Directors Neville Smith of Zwemza reported that Ana Marcela Cunha won Friday’s FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup race over 28 other professional marathon swimming women in Eilat, Israel. The Brazilian Olympian was first in 2 hours 2 minutes 53.15 seconds as she out-sprinted
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American ocean advocate and film maker Bruckner Chase (known as Uila o le Sami in American Samoa) returned to American Samoa to finish an open water swimming documentary as part of his government-supported ocean advocacy project. “We are down here in the territory this time, partially as part of the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation Collins
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Every channel swimmer knows it takes a team to successfully cross a channel. An expert pilot, a dedicated crew, trusty paddlers or kayakers. And now Molokai Channel swimmers have the opportunity to take their own teams across the Ka’iwi Channel, one of the famed Oceans Seven channels. Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild are organizing the
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Representatives of the Irish Long Distance Swimming Association and other guests were invited to a special screening of Mercedes: The Spirit of a New Age, a film producer by talented filmmaker Clare Delargy, about the remarkable life of Mercedes Gleitze. Gleitze‘s daughter Doloranda Pember also attended the world premiere in the beautiful private cinema in
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A video of Beth French‘s 24 hour 10 minute swim across Hawaii’s Molokai Channel under the guidance of Captain Matt Buckman and lead kayaker Steve Haumschild: Copyright © 2013 by Open Water Swimming
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