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Sometimes a song gets stuck in your head and you can’t get it out no matter what in the open water. Other times, a great song just pops in your head, its melody or lyrics are just right, and the pulsating music in your head enhances your open water experience. Race Director Doug Woodring of […]
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Daunting. Extreme. Challenging. And more was experienced at today’s 5th annual Ocean Recovery Alliance Clean Half extreme marathon swim race in Hong Kong. Ranked as one of the top open water swims in the world, 35 teams and 13 solo swimmers from six countries braved the winds, swells, rough surface chop and tricky ocean currents
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Lance is swimming. Lance is swimming. Those are the words about Austin, Texas this morning. The 8th Annual Lake Travis Relay will be held today, starting at 8:30 am where the world’s most famous cyclist will return to the open water. The SwimStrong team looks to be the team to beat with a host of
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This afternoon in the high Sierra Nevada mountain range, Joe Locke of the Night Train Swimmers is making his way through two feet of snow and air temperatures as low as 24°F (-4°C) to soon begin his attempt of Lake Tahoe. Never before has someone attempted or successfully crossed the full length of Lake Tahoe
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The Triple Crown of Prison Island Swims, otherwise known as Triple Break, is a trio of ocean swims where swimmers challenge themselves to escape by swimming from some of the world’s most well-known island prisons: Alcatraz, Robben and Spike. While the traditional Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming consists of the English Channel, Catalina Channel
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If an open water swimmer travels enough around the world, certain venues and certain bodies of water can remind them of other locations. The physical backdrop, the water conditions, temperatures and color, the established swims are all hints of déjà vu. Here are just a few examples of bodies of water that could be related
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Visionary publisher and triathlete Simon Griffiths, founder of H2Open Magazine, released issue #6 today – exactly a year after founding the world’s only open water swimming specialty magazine. “A year ago today I set up the company to launch H2Open, so it’s as good a moment as any to thank you all for your support
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The Daily News in South Africa reported that Michael Cohen, a British swimmer who was attacked by a Great White Shark while swimming at Fish Hoek in Cape Town, South Africa is now in a stable condition. “He is conscious and in a stable condition,” commented Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic spokeswoman Faye Kariem. The shark bit off
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You really have to respect marathon swimmers who can only train in warm places who complete their solo swims in cold conditions. Two Indian sisters, who previously completed a swim across the Strait of Gibraltar, did just that. The marathon swimming sisters just completed what is believed to be the coldest solo crossings from Robben
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48-year-old John Farrell Kelly became the first person to swim 9 miles across Fremont Lake on the western side of the Wind River mountains, filled with cold water, in Wyoming, U.S.A. on October 1st. His 6 hour 37 minute effort in the high-altitude lake (7,418 feet) started as a dream years ago. “I have been
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