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Pods Swim Around Sea Monkeys Course Courtesy of Eyewitness News, ABC7 from Seal Beach, California. The Seal Beach Sea Monkeys of Seal Beach, California frequently swim within easy view of Catalina Island and the Queen Mary harbored in neighboring Long Beach. Since the 1970’s when famed Lynne Cox and Penny Dean trained between the Seal […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the days of LORAN and when marathon swimmers around the world numbered in the dozens not in the thousands, a young group of beach city kids began their own dreams of swimming across the Catalina Channel. “We trained all over the place in and around Long Beach including
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Courtesy of Devon Clifford, Lake George Marathon Swim, New York. I came across a quote recently that resonated with me deeper than I could articulate. I simply read it. I felt it. George A. Sheehan was a physician and a runner. He said, “To keep from decaying, to be a winner, the athlete must accept
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. James Savage, who was the youngest swimmer to complete a round-trip Alcatraz Island swim, admitted that the recent RCP Tiburon Mile was his most difficult open water race to date…by far. But he loved it. Absolutely loved it. “James is always up for a challenge,” said his mother Jillian
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Prior to the RCP Tiburon Mile from Angel Island to the mainland city of Tiburon in San Francisco Bay, 2008 Olympic silver medalist Keri-Anne Payne of Great Britain had a few words to say about the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 10 km marathon swimming venue on Copacabana Beach
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eva Morrison who passed away in 1985, was an American swimmer and a hospital librarian from the Boston area who was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame in 1973 as an Honour Swimmer. She had quite the career. She completed her first open water swim (8
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lynne Cox has come out with her sixth book*, Swimming in the Sink: An Episode of the Heart. Amazon describes her latest gem as, “…a powerful book about super athleticism and human frailty, about invincibility and the sudden (mind-altering) repercussions of illness, and about the triumph of spirit, surrender,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. An interview of Lexie Kelly was published in Headliners Magazine. She admits, “Marathon swimming has made me strong both physically and mentally.” But the native Californian had already done 100×100 five days in a row as a teenager in high school at her age group swimming program. “We used
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