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While experienced and qualified first responders (e.g., race officials, lifeguards, military personnel or event staff) are usually quick to respond and are essential to the overall health and welfare of all participants, many of the first responders in emergency situations in open water swims are other swimmers. Because so many swimmers help others in difficult […]
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Vidösternsimmet is a 21K open water swim in sjön (Lake) Vidöstern in Småland, Sweden. The race is traditionally held in August with the next race to be held on August 4th 2012. Vidösternsimmet is Sweden’s longest open water swimming competition that stretches from north of Osudden in Jönköping County to the Strait of Kronoberg in
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She started off in the summer leagues in New York’s Westchester County as a 3-year-old. She gradually worked her way to a college scholarship at Duke University where she qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships and the USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming team. “ I didn’t do double workouts when I was young,
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Swimming exercises the entire body and is a great stress reliever. “When you swim, you have to focus on what you are doing,” says Borut Strel. “And you can forget the worries that you face on land. If someone is very overweight, they may not be able to walk upstairs or jog, but they can
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In lieu of having a real-live Swim Buddy or an escort paddler or kayaker, Rick Senn, Bruce Wigo and others are attacking an age-old open water swimming problem with different colors, shapes, sizes and price ranges. While Rick has created the yellow-colored collar-shaped USA Triathlon-approved MySwimIt device, Bruce developed the orange-colored, oval flotation bag Swim
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Based on research funded by the National Science Foundation and published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Harvard student Johannes Oeffner and Professor George Lauder found that the surface of high-tech swimsuits is not the element that helps improve swimming speed. But that is not to imply that the swimsuits enhance speed. “I’m convinced [the
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22-year-old Ashley Twichell traveled 34 hours from Mission Viejo, California to Pietermaritzburg in South Africa in time to compete in the Midmar Mile Speedo 10km Challenge. Her solid, evenly split time of 2 hours 2 minutes led the 24-person field from start to finish. With 2 days rest, she should have enough time to gear
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While massage tables are often found at the end of marathon runs, triathlons and some open water swims, the massage therapists and athletes often do not know the scientific basis for the benefits of human touch after an endurance event. Athletes and therapists just know that these physiological and psychological benefits exist. This lack of
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With nearly 18,000 competitors in the aQuelle Midmar Mile, it is interesting to do some gender and age-group comparisons based on the actual results for the following reasons: 1. Everyone swims the same course. 2. The course is in a smooth-water reservoir. 3. The course is rather narrow. 4. Heats of the same age-group start
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Mo Siegel, Cara McAteer and Lori Carena will pioneer a new three-person swim format at the 2012 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim. The three will swim as one coordinated team, swimming within a few meters of one other for the entire 28.5 mile circuit in New York. “I think of it as an 8-hour synchronized swim,”
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