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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of Swim Across America, Clearwater Beach, Florida. The Swim Across America – Tampa, organized by Ron Collins and his wife and cancer-survivor Rebecca Collins, donated over US$200,000 this year and over US$1,000,000 cumulatively to fund cancer research at Moffitt Cancer Center’s Melanoma, Sarcoma and Adolescent and Young Adult programs. The ocean swim in Clearwater […]
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26 on Santa Monica Beach, California. The Tower 26 summer season workouts on Santa Monica Beach in Southern California starts this Wednesday, May 17th. “Our swim caps have arrived and the ocean temperatures have warmed above 60°F (16°C+) consistently, although the winds will create patches of warm and cold,” explains
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carolina Prieto is only 13 years old, but she completed a charity swim this last week in San Francisco that raised US$6,500 for breast cancer research. “We are doing a project at my school called Take Action Project (TAP) where we pick a problem, research it and take action
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Courtesy of Mark Sheridan, Zoe Sadler, Janet Wilson, Windermere on behalf of the British Long Distance Swimming Association. Zoe Sadler, the British Long Distance Swimming Association Honorary Recorder, provided a brief history and a comprehensive, authoritative list of successful 2 Way Windermere swimmers. While swimming across Windermere has occurred for generations, the Windermere course changed
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Courtesy of LA2024, Southern California. Like the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, the top two contenders have stayed in the lead pack for the entire race and have now broken free. The cities of Paris and Los Angeles are sprinting furiously to the finish – and it is said that Paris has nudged in the lead
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Nejib Belhedi started his World Iron Swims with a small skiff pulling two children. Then he upped the ante and pulled a camel and its trainer on a larger boat. Then he started to boat pull larger and larger marine vessels. Belhedi completed his SONOTRAK Iron Swim 1000, pulling
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Courtesy of Mark Sheridan, Zoe Sadler, Janet Wilson of the British Long Distance Swimming Association. Loch Lomond is a 24-mile (38.6 km) freshwater loch in Scotland. Loch Lomond is a popular leisure destination and is site to many open water swims including the Great Scottish Swim. Since Gerald Forsberg first crossed the loch in 15
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Courtesy of LA2024, Southern California. Like the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim, the top two contenders have stayed in the lead pack for the entire race and have now broken free. The cities of Paris and Los Angeles are sprinting furiously to the finish – and it is anyone’s race to win on September 13th when
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Courtesy of Ross Edgley and his Cacao Almond Nut Butter Cookies. These Cacao almond nut butter cookies looked good to eat before, during and after a long swimming workout. Developed by log swimmer Ross Edgley, it takes him 15 minutes to make. “I keep them at the end of the swimming lane for me to
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