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Glowing Profile Of Mauro Campanelli Courtesy of Meghan Callon and Lindi Osborne, Great Lakes Guide, Canada. GLOW Swimming has honored Mauro Campanelli as its super swimmer of March. In addition to his running and triathlon events, he is also a GLOW regular and manages the annual 24-hour swim relay in Lake Ontario for GLOW at […]
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The Impact Of COVID-19 On The Channels Courtesy of DATEV Challenge Roth Triathlon and Jeff Matlow of imATHLETE. Jeff Matlow of imATHLETE highlighted how the DATEV Challenge Roth Triathlon organizers informed their participants of the cancellation of its 2020 event above. Like a major triathlon, channel crossings are not a solo endeavor that is taken
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Taking Advice On Open Water Swimming With A Grain Of Salt Courtesy of Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, South Bay, California. Professor Kimberly Prather is an Atmospheric Chemist, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry, and a Distinguished Professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at University of California San Diego.
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Vasa Is Trying To Catch Up Courtesy of Rob Sleamaker, CEO & Founder, Vasa. With pool and beaches closed from coast to coast across the United States due to the lockdowns, quarantines, and shelter-in-place quarantine, with an unknown end date, there is a growing demand for Vasa SwimErgs. Rob Sleamaker, CEO & Founder of Vasa,
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Backyard Pool Sets During Quarantines Courtesy of Jack Butera, Lexington, Massachusetts. In this era of lockdowns, quarantines and shelter-in-place ordinances, swimmers can find alternatives to their temporarily closed training facilities and beaches: backyard swim pools. These backyard pools present a useful alternative in these trying times. Chris Morgan of Gator Swim Club has designed a
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I Felt Fine, But It Was A Shock Courtesy of Tod Hardin, Plastic Oceans International. Sarah Ferguson, a South African swimmer, physiotherapist, motivational speaker, and Pilates instructor from Durban, was the first person to complete a 60 km circumnavigation swim around Easter Island in Polynesia. She completed the swim in 19 hours 8 minutes in
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Looking Forward For Pablo Fernández Álvarez And Nuala Moore Courtesy of WOWSA, Mount Everest, Nepal. Like the postponed and cancelled open water swimming events from Tokyo to Florida due to the coronavirus pandemic, Pablo Fernández Álvarez and Nuala Moore [shown above] had to put their swimming goals temporarily on hold. As Fernández says from Spain,
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Marianne Alvarez Of Honu Para Swim On Creative Mornings Courtesy of Creative Mornings, Vancouver, Canada. Marianne Alvarez of Honu Para Swim Team in Vancouver, Canada was born in Mexico and moved to Canada in 1987 with her husband, raising four daughters. In 2014, she organized the first Para-Relay to swim across the English Channel, six
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Antonio Argüelles On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU, Mexico City, Mexido. Open Water Friday will feature one of the most remarkable men in the open water swimming community: Mexico’s Antonio Argüelles. His aquatic dreams took him from Mexico City to his formative years to Stanford University and, much later, to two Triple_Crown_of_Open_Water_Swimming and Oceans Seven
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No pool? No Beach? No problem! Courtesy of Jack Butera, Lexington, Massachusetts. When you fly over the states of California and Florida and many places in between, you can look down and see thousands of pools. Some are regulation-size 50 meters pools, but a vast majority of the pools are small home pools. According to
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