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Cold Water Acclimatization Training In An Endless Pool

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. For those open water swimmers in northern climes, preparation for cold-water swims is a natural. The year-round availability of cold water enables year-round training and the acclimatization process to ensure hardening. However, without easy access to cold water year-round, marathon swimmers who attempt cold-water lake swims, extreme swims or

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Storm Delays USS Iowa, But Joe Locke Is Firing On All Cylinders

The mighty lead battleship U.S.S. Iowa, which is 270 meters in length and carried U.S. President Roosevelt across the Atlantic to Casablanca en route to a crucial 1943 meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin, was scheduled to depart from San Francisco Bay. But due to a storm off of

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Providing A Helping Hand With The Masterfeedermixer

A masterfeedermixer is a coach, support crew member, parent, friend or volunteer who is responsible for preparing, mixing and feeding a marathon swimmer or channel swimmer on an escorted swim. The masterfeedermixer lays out everything before and during the swim and understands what kinds of foods and hydration the swimmer wants in precise detail, in

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Dive In, Walk Out, Smile Throughout

At the Jamie’s Swim Camp 2.0, dozens of experienced swimmers including a number of channel swimmers ranging from Oceans Seven Darren Miller and Marathon Swimmers Forum co-founder Evan Morrison to cold water extremists and Tahoeists enjoyed a long weekend of swimming, eating and conversations ith their fellow swimmers. Conversations centered around the where, when, who,

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