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Acknowledging The Pain – One Perspective Courtesy of Jen Schumacher, Catalina Channel, California. Jen Schumacher, a 9 hour 2 minute Catalina Channel swimmer, talked about the pain that she experienced during her channel swim. “On my Catalina swim, I averaged 155 beats per minutes with a maximum of around 200. I wanted to swim as […]
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The TRIFEST Conference is a free two-day event in Tucson, Arizona on March 6th – 7th that will cover a wide range of topics to benefit multisport athletes, coaches and race directors. The free conference is open to the general public. TRIFEST offers running, cycling and swimming information and kicks off three weekends in March
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George Brustand, the oldest individual to successfully cross the English Channel at the age of 70, talks about bilateral breathing for open water swimmers, “This is from someone who is 75 and has been swimming since age 3. I have no idea how many strokes I have swum in the past 72 years, but it
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The crowds and media were treated to a fantastic finish at the La Patagones Viedma FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup a few weeks ago. As usual, the race came right down to the finish between the top competitors. This time, Angela Maurer of Germany (2:03:34) just out-touched second-place Karla Šitić of Croatia (2:03:34) and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Gold in the Water – The True Story of Ordinary Men and Their Dream of Olympic Glory is a riveting book by P.H. Mullen, one of the best writers about swimming in the English language, tells the story of elite swimmers preparing for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney,
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Dan Projansky a lot of calories…swimming butterfly. The 5′-6″, 160-lb mid-mannered banker from the northwest side of Chicago, Dan typically swims 6 or 7 miles of butterfly in a typical week in order to train for races between 5K – 10K. We asked him about his chosen swimming stroke in the open water. Q1. How
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Chad Ho is on a tear – at professional invitational races around the world, at FINA 10KM Marathon Swimming World Cup events and, in front of the largest audience ever, the 37th Halfway Toyota Midmar Mile at the KwaZulu-Natal Resort in South Africa this Sunday, but it was not without a serious challenge that he
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After hearing about the epic rescue by Florida lifeguard Daniel Lund this month when he ignored all reasonable concern for his own personal safety and paddled out 400 meters in the ocean to attempt to save a local kite surfer who had been attacked by sharks, we asked open water swimmers around the world about
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What is the difference between the racing tactics and mindset used at the highest levels (Olympic and professional swimmers) and every other open water competitor? Nothing, in our opinion. In pool swimming competitions, an age-group or masters swimmer or a triathlete cannot necessarily replicate the strength, power, flexibility, grace or stroke technique of Olympic gold
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