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Dr. Peter Whybrow, Director of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California in Los Angeles and the Judson Braun Distinguished Professor and Executive Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine, explains in his fascinating book, American Mania. When More Is […]
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“My philosophy is, you have to have the right screw loose to be a good endurance athlete. You look at the best ones, they’re crazy,” described Alex Meyer to the New York Times about marathon swimmers. “It was very difficult. No one has ever been stupid enough to attempt this before,” recalled David Yudovin, an
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Aloha can mean hello and good-bye in the Hawaiian language. Darren Miller bid good-bye to Molokai Island this morning, swam 12 hours 12 minutes across the Kaiwi Channel (Moloka’i Channel) under reasonably good conditions (relatively speaking), and said hello to Oahu Island this Friday evening. The channel crossing was his third successful leg of the
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Redmond talks about his escort crews of his marathon swims, “They are your life support…for whatever time it takes. You hand your life over to these guys. You don’t know them, but all of a sudden they are the greatest friends you’ll ever come across. It is an
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Alex Meyer, the Harvard intellectual who takes a studious approach to marathon swimming, was nominated by USA Swimming in two separate categories in its annual Golden Goggle Awards: in the Breakout Performance of the Year category and in the Perseverance Award category. The USA Swimming Foundation Golden Goggle Awards are a star-studded awards gala celebrating
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The Rotary Club made an announcement about its Global Swimarathon with a bit of additional news on the open water swimming front. According to the press release issued on World Polio Day, Penny Palfrey is going to attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida sometime in June 2012. The past 22 years, the Rotary Club
Sure the water is warm, but on most days, the Molokai Channel is completely unswimmable. So when the conditions align, swimmers just gotta go for it. Darren Miller (shown on left) and Bruce Gordon are in Hawaii this week to make a go of it. As the indomitable Forrest Nelson says, “The weather is breaking
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “This was, by far, the hardest,” said Stephen Redmond about today’s crossing of the Catalina Channel in an unofficial time of 12 hours 39 minutes from Catalina Island to the California mainland. “My stomach locked up…it was horrendous. I never said so many prayers in my life. It was
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David Yudovin accomplished another first in his lengthy marathon swimming career. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame inductee (1999) completed a very difficult channel swim in the Batu Islands group of northwest Sumatra in Indonesia. The 11.5 nautical mile swim was from Tanahmasa to Pini. “It was very difficult due to head winds and
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Following in the footsteps of the European Championships, the FINA World Swimming Championships and the Pacific Open Water Swim, NYC Swim is adding a 3-person Team Pursuit race to its schedule in 2012. For its June 23rd Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, NYC Swim will host the longest and most scenic 3-person Team Pursuit in history.
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