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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica. Be Race Ready podcast episode #10 is posted online. Coach Gerry Rodrigues discusses breathing and answers questions from ‘How often should you breathe?’ and ‘Should you hold your breath?’ to ‘How does less or more breathing effect performance?’ Tower 26’s Rodrigues describes the mechanics, recommended frequency, and […]
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Courtesy of Alizee Zimmermann, Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim, Turks & Caicos. In the Race For The Conch Eco-SeaSwim goodie bag for its participants, this marine drawing is included so both young and older competitors can fill in with crayons. This year will be the seventh year of this tropical swim in the Caribbean Sea.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is located off the coast of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, just north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco. It is one of 14 U.S. federally designated marine protected area administered by America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The sanctuary encompasses
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Openwaterpedia is a unique, comprehensive, multi-lingual online reference tool for the endurance sports, triathlon and aquatic community. The information covers people of the sport (11,733 individuals), terms (2,666 words and phrases), places (2,171 locations), products (1,465 goods), pilots (207 captains), events (3,844 races), services (718), coaches (1,140), records (767),
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Beginning in A.D. 722, Sado Island served a prison island as it lies 40 km away from the Japanese west coast in the Sea of Japan. Significantly further from the mainland that Alcatraz or Robben Island, the 40 km was an effective lifelong sentence of banishment on the island
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. While the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in the south part of California is postponed this year, the RCP Tiburon Mile will go on…the same weekend. While over 2,000 swimmers annually flock to La Jolla Cove for the original Rough Water Swim, nearly 900 swimmers annually flock to San
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Brenton Williams does another butterfly swim, it is newsworthy. But at his side during training swims is a young selfless paddler, Issataya Bredell. She patiently watches over him and looks ahead in the 14ºC waters of Marina Martinique. Bredell is typical of a South African paddlers and crew
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming has steadily grown around the world. Not only have the number of swimmers and coaches increased, but also so have the number of officials and volunteers. With thousands of local open water swimming events added annually to the global open water schedule, more and more regional,
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The biggest. The wettest. The wildest. The toughest. All words that Australian swimmers can live by. 249 of them did at the 2016 First National Lake Argyle Swim in Western Australia. After registrations closed in a 2-hour sell out, a pair of 40-somethings bested the field in the 10
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