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Ryszard Majewski reported on his night swim with 13 swimmers who swam in the beautiful light of a full moon in Las Vistas beach, Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Guided by kayaks, the swimmers were aided by glow sticks (see below) in the gorgeous waters of the Canary Islands. The safety afforded by the glow […]
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Is the 60 the new 40 in open water swimming With Diana Nyad attempting to swim 165K from Florida to Cuba, it appears so. 59-year-old Peter Jurzynski is 59, is training in the cool waters of the English Channel in hopes of yet another successful English Channel swim this summer. With 14 successful channel crossings,
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Pilar Geijo, the 25-year-old marathon swimming star from Argentina, recently signed with blueseventy after being ranked second in the 2009 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix rankings and leading the world rankings this year, joining 9-time world professional marathon swimming champion English Channel record holder Petar Stoychev on the blueseventy team. blueseventy is confident that
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For those who peak in the Northern Hemisphere summer, do not forget the fall season when a variety of long-distance swimming events are available in some incredible locations around the globe. Training hard in the summer and then enjoying races in the fall is a secret known to many insiders – and an increasing number
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Laura Gold, Jessica Gerhart, Vermont and Beth Williams, Steve Tavella and Carrie Feydenkevez completed Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association’s Son of a Swim, a qualifying event for the upcoming Kingdom Swim 10 Miler, part of the Kingdom Swim on July 24th with over 200 entrants from 24 states and overseas, some coming from as
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English Channel and Manhattan Island swimmer Rob Kent of the Lake Ontario Swim Team brought us another funny video care of YouTube. Sometimes dolphining at the start of an open water swim is hard… Copyright © 2010 by Steven Munatones
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While Diana Nyad is planning on a very warm-water 103-mile swim from Florida to Cuba among sharks, currents and jellyfish, Karen Rogers will face something equally demanding if not a bit shorter in distance. Follow Karen here this Friday at 3 am California time. Karen will face really big sharks (Great Whites) and really cold
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Daily News of Open Water Swimming reported earlier that Diana Nyad was secretly training. We couldn’t figure out what she was up to. What could the former marathon swimmer – now in her 7th decade on earth – be doing training for 3, 4, 5 hours per day?
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Seven-time world professional marathon swimming champion Shelley Taylor-Smith who has done everything from short ocean sprints to the English Channel is conducting a series of open water swimming clinics in Canada and the USA in July and August. Her tour kicks off in New York City on July 10th. “Training is a passion of mine
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Chris Dahowski announced the very unique Swim22 Endurance Challenge that will start on October 4th. The Swim22 Endurance Challenge is a four-person relay…across the Catalina Channel. 88 miles between Catalina Island and the mainland of California, 4 swimmers doing their leg one after another over a two-day period with the help of 50 crew members
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