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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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Melissa Dahl, an American writer and editor for The Science of Us, writes about the uniqueness of open water swimming among endurance sports in her latest article for the New York Magazine. Read about the data she uncovered and recently published by exercise researcher Beat Knechtle about marathon swimming and the perspectives of channel swimmers
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Courtesy of Mányoki Attila, Hungary. Magda Molnar is a Hungarian open water swimmer who peaked in the early 1940s. Decades after her career culminated in Lake Balaton, she was inducted in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honour Swimmer in 1985. She swam initially with the MUE Club and at the FTC
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Photos and explanation courtesy of Elliot Karlan Photography, San Francisco, California. This sequence shows the swim and run-up-the-beach-to-the-finish at the 2016 RCP Tiburon Mile from Angel Island to the mainland city of Tiburon (meaning shark in Spanish) in San Francisco Bay. It shows the significance of a running sprint to the finish. Olympic silver medalist
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Photos courtesy of Elliot Karlan Photography, San Francisco, California. One year after cancelling the 2015 race for the non-elites due to unexpectedly strong currents, the excitement of the RCP Tiburon Mile returned to San Francisco Bay. The 1 nautical mile race has always had its share of close races, but the 2016 edition was a
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Photos courtesy of Mark Serota, Florida. The Swim for Alligator Lighthouse is an 8-mile (9.2 miles or 14.8 km) open water swim in Islamorada in the Florida Keys, organized by Jonathan Strauss. The marathon swim is from Islamorada, Florida around the Alligator Lighthouse and back for solo swimmers, 2-person teams, and 4-person teams on September
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Upper photo courtesy of Jeff Kozlovich and Steve Haumschild, Molokai Channel, Hawaii. One of America’s most renowned and respected orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Tom Hackett has expended his adventurous spirit on dryland as an archaeologist, mountaineer, guide, and ski patrolman. After an all-nighter in the Pacific Ocean, Dr. Hackett made it successfully across the Molokai Channel
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Courtesy of Phil White of the Northeast Kingdom Open Water Swimming Association, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. On September 10th, 58-year-old Dr. Mark Smitherman of Florida completed In Search of Memphre, the 25-mile border-crossing swim the length of Lake Memphremagog between Newport, Vermont in the United States and Magog, Quebec in Canada. Dr. Smitherman, nicknamed Magoo, left
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Courtesy of Dave Van Mouwerik, Lake Tahoe, California-Nevada. Dave Van Mouwerik of the Lake Tahoe Marathon Swim Federation [shown on left] is soliciting information on the myriad Lake Tahoe swimming crossings in history. “I composed a request with fairly specific information in the hopes that I will capture some Tahoe Swimmers. We want to develop
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Thomas Petersen is an active 70-year-old open water swimmer, coach and triathlete from Tampa, Florida. The extraordinarily energetic masters athlete has traveled all over his home state of Florida and as far away as San Francisco and the Cayman Islands to compete in his chosen sports. His speed remains
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