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Swimming Smooth With Paul Newsome Courtesy of WOWSA, Perth Australia. Hannah started out her swimming life as a Bambino, a clever term coined by Paul Newsome of SwimSmooth. We believe Newsome’s new Swim Type system, which breaks down the freestyle stroke into six different styles, is creative, educational, easy-to-understand and spot on. As Newsome explains, […]
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Jen Schumacher, the third swimmer of the unprecedented 88-mile (141.6K) Ultimate Swim Relay, conducted an interesting research project on herself, together with Dr. Daniel Judelson and Dr. Lenny Wiersma, as she swam across the Catalina Channel in 2009 in 9 hours and 2 minutes. Their findings were reported at this year’s American College of Sports
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Members of the Black-Ice Open Water Swimming Club, based in Black Rock, Australia (outside of Melbourne), are one tough, dedicated group of open water swimmers. Over the years, these athletes have proven themselves in the English Channel, the Cook Strait and numerous Rottnest Channel Swims. Black-Ice Open Water Swimming Club founder Albert (Alby) Bardoel provided
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In a fascinating study performed by on weight changes among triathletes at the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii, Dr. Robert Sallis, a sports medicine doctor at the Fontana Medical Center, and Claremont McKenna College’s team doctor Glen Moore concluded that men and women of various age groups have different problems with fluid balance. Their
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Gail Rice has had quite a career in marathon swimming, renowned for her churning 90 strokes per minute pace. Gail, a mother, a marathon runner and a nurse, is one of the few people in the world who has completed a modified version of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming – the English Channel,
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Gator Bait at Eagle Lake in Vicksburg, Mississippi will be held on August 28th. Race director Sheri Wallace said the 1-mile, ¼-mile (400 meters), ½-mile (800 meters) will have different categories for swimmers of all ages and abilities with plenty of safety personnel onshore and in the water. Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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The 41st annual Waikiki Roughwater Swim will be held on America’s Labor Day, September 6th, starting at the foot of the Diamond Head volcano and stretching across Waikiki Bay. For the first time in its 41-year history, the Waikiki Roughwater Swim will offer a post-race buffet overlooking one of the world’s most famous beaches. Also
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Jordan Waxman, a private banker from New York, has devised his own portable feeding station that floats as it holds his feeding bottles, gels and extra goggles for use on all his open water training swims. Jordan got the idea initially from Mike Tscantz-Hahn who just successfully crossed the English Channel in 2009. Jordan used
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After reporting on Diana Nyad‘s upcoming swim from Cuba to Florida, we learned that Diana (’67) graduated from Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida which has long produced hundreds of great swimmers – and an amazing number of accomplished open water swimmers. Triple Crown swimmers Scott Coleman (’72) and Dr. Scott Richards (’77), as
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Courtesy WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bonking on the hot lava fields of Kona. Crashing on your bike on a slippery road. Getting out-sprinted at the finish. Facing an oncoming wind. Feeling the lactic acid pain while doing interval sets in the pool. The feeling of helplessness by triathletes is well-known. Read their blogs, check out website
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