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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is said that creativity requires a combination of mindfulness and daydreaming as well as seriousness and playfulness with a mix of solitude and collaboration thrown in. These conditions can be ideally created while swimming in the open water. There is not only a sense of mindfulness, but also […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anne Curtis in 1944. Don Schollander in 1964. Debbie Meyer in 1968. John Kinsella in 1970. Mark Spitz in 1971. Tim Shaw in 1975. John Naber in 1977. Tracy Caulkins in 1978. Janet Evans in 1989. Michael Phelps in 2003. Jessica Long in 2006. Missy Franklin in 2012. Some
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Courtesy of Hopper McDonough, SwimVacation, British Virgin Islands. As we embark on our 20th trip to the British Virgin Islands, I’ve been thinking about this magical thing that happens on SwimVacation: we school. It happens spontaneously. A small group of 2 or 3 SwimVacationers swims upon another group. And another. Before you know it, we’re
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jim Boucher of Guildford, Surrey, England is usually swimming across channels and is never swayed by cold water. He was among his most hardened colleagues in Tyumen, Russia at the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships. On the first day, he placed 8th in the 25m breaststroke, 6th in the
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Courtesy of Jim Boucher in Tyumen, Russia at the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships. All kinds of stories are emanating from Tyumen, Russia at the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships. Young, old; newcomer, veteran; Russian, foreigner: all kind of swimmers from nearly every walk of life are taking part in the world championships. But few
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Courtesy of Colin Hill of Chillswim in Tyumen, Russia at the 2016 Winter Swimming World Championships
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Photo courtesy of Robbie & Robert Bailey of Bailey Photography. Information courtesy of Phil White, Memphremagog Winter Swim Festival, Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. 76-year-old Barnabus Zeng from Fresh Meadow, New York was awarded Ice Tongs for being the most mature member of the Memphremagog Winter Swimming Society as the oldest swimmer at the 2016 Memphremagog Winter
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sherpas are highly regarded as elite mountaineers and local experts who serve as guides at the extreme altitudes of the peaks and passes in the Himalayas, especially expeditions to climb Mount Everest. Sherpas are renowned in the international climbing and mountaineering community for their hardiness, expertise, and experience at
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Courtesy of Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary. For more information from Molly Solomon about these whales, listen and read here. The Hawaiʻian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary was created by the United States Congress in 1992 to protect humpback whales and their habitat in Hawaiʻi. It is administered by the Department of
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