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Thank you Steve. Your book gives us even a little more motivation. It appears that we have completed 28 out of 54 total piers so we have 25 to go. We are going to do the channel island piers as well (there appears to be only 4…Catalina 2, Santa Rosa 1 and Santa Cruz 1, […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are a number of colorful champions, powerful personalities and charismatic characters in the open water swimming world. Some of them are known to the media by their nicknames; others are simply known among their friends and family. Catalinator: Hank Wise (shown on
Five women to swim length of Lake Ontario in relay. By: Amy Dempsey GTA, Published on Fri Jul 19 2013 EXPLORE THIS STORY UPDATED 3 PHOTOS 4 COMMENTS Save to Mystar Republish Just after 10 o’clock on Tuesday morning, five women will stand barefoot at the edge of a lakeside dock, the land behind them
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Ailen Lascano Micaz will swim 100 km in Río Negro in Viedma, Argentina.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. 3×50@3:00, all-out freestyle kicking with a kickboard + 2×25@3:00 with Bosu Ball 20-year-old female: 1st 50: 44 seconds with 99% SpO2 + 137 bpm 2nd 50: 43 seconds with 98% SpO2 + 143 bpm 3rd 50: 44 seconds with 99% SpO2 + 150 bpm 1st 25: 40 seconds with
Just prior to crossing the Tsugaru Channel in northern Japan, Stephen Redmond passed up all the seafood and seaweed that he was offered by his Japanese hosts for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The Irish Oceans Seven swimmer was staying in a small Japanese inn who proprietor was a fisherman in the Tsugaru Channel and a
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Courtesy of John Batchelder, English Channel. After waiting through a government-mandated quarantine and his window, John Batchelder finally got to attempt a 33.5 km crossing – swimming only butterfly – of the English Channel. 16 hours 13 minutes (unofficially) after stepping off the English coast, Batchelder landed in France on June 29th to become one
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. FINA/HOSA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2017 12 Aug 2017 Lac Mégantic, Canada 1 RASOVSZKY Kristof Hungary HUN 1:58:18.08 2 VANELLI Federico Italy ITA 1:58:21.06 00:02.98 3 DO CARMO Allan Brazil BRA 1:58:25.02 00:06.94 4 RUFFINI Simone Italy ITA 1:58:25.27 00:07.19 5 MEISSNER Soren Detlef Germany GER 1:58:26.41 00:08.33
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Stéphane Lecat (FRA) was the recipient of the Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award Poseidon Award recipient is Chris Guesdon The Poseidon Award is an annual award given by the International Swimming Hall of Fame to recognize those individuals who have gone beyond the call
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