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Six swimmers – 3 from Mexico and 3 from the US – will be together for a very long time on the high seas: between 30 – 40 hours in the Sea of Cortez. Teamwork, patience and camaraderie will be the highest priorities as sleep deprivation, mental stress and physical fatigue start to set in […]
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Ned Denison, Swim Ireland’s National Open Water Committee chairman, announced the details of the Cork Ireland Distance Swim Camp from June 12th – 20th. “Swimmers can join for all nine days – or just a few. Most of the swimming will take place around Sandycove Island in Kinsale, Cork, Ireland.” “This spectacular training location boasts
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Jamie Patrick became the second person to swim across Clear Lake in northern California this weekend. Jamie, wearing a wetsuit, swam 17.68 miles (28.4K) in 7 hours and 34 minutes. “I hope that my story motivates others to strive toward their own goals that they may initially perceive as out of reach.” The swim was
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2010 North Carolina Open Water Championships in Seven Lakes will add a 1 km relay and a special Poseidon Award to the top swimmer who compete in the 2 km, 3 km and 5 km races.
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The multi-discipline Against the Tide is a popular fundraising event to benefit the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. Besides the two one-mile swims, the event also offers a kayak race, a walk and a run to raise money and requires its participants to raise a minimum of US$150 prior to the event. Held in the picturesque
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At this weekend’s Charlotte UltraSwim Meet in North Carolina, USA Swimming fans saw a precursor to a wonderfully unpredictable USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championship on June 4th in California. While the focus of the swimming world was on Michael Phelps, our focus was on the battle in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle where NCAA
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Older generations often tell younger people of the tremendous trials and tribulations of their youth and how much more difficult it was “in their day” than it is currently in contemporary times. As is natural, the younger generations tend to brush off the talk and any mention of the
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The annual Chris Greene Lake Swim in Virginia was established in 1977 and has served as the U.S. Masters Swimming national 2-mile cable championships on several occasions. Because the cable swim is measured and surveyed annually to precisely 440 yards, the one and two-mile cable distances are the only open water events in which U.S.
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The British open water swimmers dominated the first leg of the 2010 European Open Water Swimming Cup held in Eilat, Israel on May 8th. While the victory of Keri-Anne Payne was not surprising, it was refreshing to see Olympic 10K Marathon Swim bronze medalist Cassandra Patten (with swim cap on left) revisit the awards podium.
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Mark Robson, Dan Martin and a slew of Outdoor Swimming Society members met up for a leisurely swim in River Nene. Mark is shown swimming near the Church of St. Mary and All Saints next to the castle where King Richard 3rd was born and where Mary Queen of Scots was executed, “It was very
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