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Megan Melgaard, a Renaissance Women of the open water world, pays close attention to the amount and type of water and hydration she takes in, but it wasn’t until recently that she learned how important it is to monitor the amount of water going out. Melgaard, who races major endurance events across the globe and […]
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After a week of constant, unseasonably hard rains with thundershowers, the skies let up and the waves settled down for a gorgeous running of the 10th annual Butterfield 800m Sea Swim on Seven Mile Beach in the Cayman Islands. “After all the weather we’ve been having, the conditions [for the race] were great,” said Bill
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Kester Edwards, a former board director of Special Olympics International, and Special Olympics Cayman Islands under the leadership of Maxime Everson organized the first international Special Olympics open water swimming clinic. Over 25 coaches and open water swimming athletes from the Caribbean nations and North America participated in a 3-day workshop. The athletes did a
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Rudsel Maria is a special man and open water swimming coach from Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The tall charismatic coach formerly focused on pool swimming after he furthered his study in the Netherlands. Coach Maria is now utilizing his talents and time to guide Special Olympics athletes
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Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. It is the largest and most populous of the three ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) of the Lesser Antilles. Its Swim for the Roses is part of a charity series of running, cycling and swimming events held every January where
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If there is anyone who has taken the sport of open water swimming hook, line and sinker, it is El Sharko, otherwise known as Christopher Blakeslee. The stalwart of the San Francisco Bay community and South End Rowing Club is one the oldest swimmers of the English Channel. He joined the Half Century Club on
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“He’s a fish outta water.” That comment is made frequently about good swimmers by their less aquatically-oriented friends on terra firma. It certainly applies to Evan Morrison, a business data analyst from Santa Barbara, California who co-founded the Marathon Swimmers Forum. The friendly face and graduate of Princeton University has turned his life-long passion for
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First it was Nuala Moore and Anne Marie Ward who joined Nejib Belhedi on his 1400K Swim Across Tunisia along the entire coastline of Tunisia. Now it is Stuart Hyde and Thomas Noblett of the Windermere 12-way Warriors who will join in his Swim of Peace that will now be extended to Hyde Park. “There’ll
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Doug Woodring announced the Oceanic Big Five to celebrate World Oceans Day. “Open water swimmers, surfers, sailors, divers and paddlers have an IOU for the ocean and now it’s time to give back. Get your friends, teams or communities together, and create an ocean clean-up in places that normal beach cleanups might not take you.
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In a recent interview about his future in the sport of swimming, Michael Phelps told Rick Reilly of Sports Illustrated, “I’m so sick of the water. Even when I go to the beach with my friends. They’re like, ‘Why won’t you get in?’ And I’m like, ‘Do you have any IDEA how much of my
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