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The 2010 Axxess DSL Ocean Racing Series in Nelson Mandela Bay, Port Elizabeth in South Africa is a great place to be for an open water swimmer during the Easter holidays. The fifth annual Series will feature a special challenge race this year that will showcase the endurance, grit and sprinting talents of the world’s […]
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The ever-growing, always popular multi-race (0.3K tag team relay, 0.7K and 2.8K) Sovereign New Zealand Ocean Swim Series has gotten off to a great start with its first two races of the Southern Hemisphere summer season: the Harbour Crossing Auckland and Russell to Paihia Bay of Islands have been completed. In the first race of
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Two-time Catalina Channel swimmers Cindy Walsh (13:56 in 2007 and 9:55 in 2008) and Jim Fitzpatrick (9:47 in 2001 and 14:59 in an unprecedented Catalina to Newport Beach crossing in 2008) completed a 15-mile swim across Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho earlier this year. The marathon swimming duo has an interesting story on why they
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Twenty ocean swimmers from all over the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands contributed to the Walk for Life in a uniquely aquatic way. While 800 people walked the route along the beach front, the open water athletes swam along the same 3.4K course under strong winds and currents. In a show of solidarity
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Dan Martin will cross the Atlantic Ocean the hard way – and many say, the right way – no wetsuit, no floating on currents and starting every swim on every new day from the exact same point which he finished the previous day. In a show of solidarity, the global marathon swimming community is coming
Globo TV‘s spectacular 2-hour live television coverage with seven cameras – including helicopter aerial footage – of the King of the Sea Challenge (Rei Do Mar Desafio) can be seen here. Winner Trent Grimsey pulled a classic stealth move on the third loop. Trent moved 30 meters to the left of the lead pack –
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Deck-ups (noun): A pool training set where athletes (triathletes or open water swimmers) pull themselves out of the pool after each swim and dive back into the water for the next swim during an interval-training set. The set prepares the athletes for the end of an open water race with an onshore finish or the
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Three marathon swimming adventurers have crossed the Atlantic Ocean using the strength of the ocean currents: In 1998, Benoit Lecomte traveled 3,716 miles from Cape Cod, USA to Brittany, France in 73 days, stopping at the Azores Islands. In 1991, Guy Delage swam and floated 2,335 miles alone from the Cape Verde Islands to Barbados.
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Trent Grimsey pulled away on the third loop at today’s King of the Sea Challenge (Rei Do Mar Desafio) in Rio de Janeiro, using a 6-beat kick and a 88 stroke-per-minute tempo. He resorted to a 92 spm tempo on the last loop to keep his competitors at bay and capture the inaugural King of
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There are an increasing number of open water races around the world that offer everything: interesting and challenging courses, live television coverage, exposure via archived online streaming, competitive elite fields, age-group and fitness swimmer heats, convenient hotel accommodations, 50-meter pools for pre-race training, comprehensive safety procedures and onshore entertainment. The Great Swim Series in Great
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