Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation. 42-year-old Abigail Fairman has enjoyed all kinds of experiences throughout the Americas during 2017. Among her many marathon swims, she completed all 4 stages of the 4-day 66.9 km S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, all 7 stages of the 193 km 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, 25 km Kingdom Swim Border Buster, […]

Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, New York. Stephen Rouch has enjoyed all kinds of experiences throughout the United States in 2017. Among his many marathon swims, he completed all 4 stages of the 4-day 66.9 km S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge, all 7 stages of the 193 km 8 Bridges Hudson River

Courtesy of Marathon Swimmers Federation, Lago Maggiore, Italy. Jaimie Monahan is always doing the extreme whether it is ice swims in Russia, becoming an Ice Ironwoman and Ice Zero Swimmer, mid-winter workouts with the Coney Island Brighton Beach Open Water Swimmers Club in Brooklyn, winter swimming competitions in Windermere, marathon swimming twice around Manhattan Island,

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Bruckner Chase and Michelle Evans-Chase will give a 2-hour speech and Q&A period called ‘Mindfulness and the Endurance Athlete’ held at the GU Energy Labs in Berkeley, California on January 18th. The husband-and-wife team will discuss the science and tools behind training an endurance athlete’s brain to respond to

Courtesy of Melissa Cunningham, International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame. Melissa Cunningham, an Honor Swimmer and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, announced a new Instagram account for the IMSHOF (see @imshofame). “We would love to celebrate your achievements and from time to time we will contact

Courtesy of Marilyn DiLascio, Hudson Valley, New York. In September 1954, Marilyn Bell DiLascio and Florence Chadwick started their separate solo swims across Lake Ontario from New York to Toronto at nearly the same time. While Chadwick was offered $10,000 to make the crossing, Bell set off without the expectation of a payoff. 20 hours

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Competitive open water swimming at the highest levels combines the aerobic conditioning of running, the tactics of cycling, and the toughness of water polo (or boxing). Manny Pacquiao is one of the world’s greatest boxers in history. Over the course of his career, he won world championships in seven

Toshio Tominaga is a 73-year-old Japanese open water swimmer who will soon attempt to swim across the Tsugaru Channel in Japan. If Tominaga is successful in swimming from Honshu to Hokkaido in northern Japan, he will enter the annals of channel swimming as one of the oldest athletes ever to successfully complete a channel challenge.