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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo before the start of the ice kilometer at the 2017 Ice Swimming Aqua Sphere World Championships in Burghausen, Germany. Imagine combining two of the loves of your life…one on dryland and one in the open water. Imagine swimming for a living; imagine traveling and working; imagine thinking about […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Michael Ventre, a 39-year-old IT engineer, will attempt a 6,115 km (3,800-mile) river-to-river stage swim from New York to London in April 2017 in order to raise millions for Oxfam. The unprecedented swim from his start in the Hudson River in New York to the Thames in central London
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Tobie Smith understands elite competition. Not only did Dr. Smith win the 1999 Manhattan Island Marathon Swim in 6 hours 32 minutes and swam the English Channel in 8 hours 15 minutes in Force 5 winds, but she also represented the USA in international competitions including the 2003
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Coach Gerry Rodrigues, “Tower 26‘s latest 39-minute Be Race Ready podcast series episode #22 on triathlon swimming is loaded for listening.” Rodrigues and co-host Jim Lubinski introduce paraplegic Danny Garcia. “We educate on planning your 2017 season, discuss the final touches of our virtual subscription training program,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. On February 2nd, prior to the official Sprint Race before the 43rd Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe – Coronda, special guests including former swimmers, swimmers who want to participate in the marathon in the future, lifeguards, guides, journalists, trainers, and triathletes will participate in the Sprint del Reencuentro. Celeste
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The local Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum in Key West, Florida is interested in making a display about Bill Welzien‘s marathon swimming career that includes 87 total 12.5-mile (20.1 km) circumnavigation swims around Key West and his two Sea of Galilee swims
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Japanese are coming up with all kinds of cool and interesting things in the open water swimming world from doing Pool Open Water races in resort hotel pools to building a 1000m outdoor pool. Its triathletes will be conducting their swim leg in the Osaka Triathlon in the
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Courtesy of Kristina Henry, U.S. Masters Swimming’s Swimmer Magazine. James Biles received the 2016 U.S. Masters Swimming Dorothy Donnelly Service Award for his volunteer effort and time that he has devoted to the Wisconsin Local Masters Swimming Committee. The 55-year-old U.S. Navy lieutenant commander and chairman of the of Wisconsin Local Masters Swimming Committee was
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Courtesy of Safe Catch, Sausalito, California. Childhood friends Sean and Bryan love tuna. So they started Safe Catch with the goal of providing safe seafood. “We want everyone to feel great about eating tuna. We invented a new technology to test every fish for mercury. We only source sustainably caught wild tuna and each fish
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