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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. This year’s Academy Awards had some ties with themes common among environmentalists in the open water swimming community. Mark Ruffalo, one of the supporters and activists behind Benoit Lemonte‘s The Longest Swim, played a key role in Spotlight, the movie that won the 2016 Best Picture Award. Then long-time […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A number of open water swimmers and physicians have given TED Talks at various locations around the world: Lewis Pugh, Diana Nyad, Maarten van der Weijden, Ori Sela, Vicki Keith, Dr. Peter Attia, Tim Ferriss, Dr. Angel Yanagihara, Maria Conceicao, and Dr Tim Noakes. Professor Noakes is a world-renowned
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimmers, especially channel swimmers and marathon swimmers, have an interesting relationship with lanolin. They use lanolin for prevent chafing or to reduce the initial shock of cold water. They use lanolin with Vaseline or Desitin or Safe Sea or other ointments and creams or anti-chafe spray lubricant
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When we first learned of Wim Hof years ago, our first impression was amazement and wonder. How could anyone do what he is doing? Then we learned more and more of the ice swimming and winter swimming communities. What so impressed us about the Dutchman Hof was that he
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Courtesy of Pádraig Mallon, International Ice Swimming Association Ireland. It is almost becoming ordinary to achieve the extraordinary in Northern Ireland. Or it just may be that extraordinarily hardened individuals are numerous in Ireland. Whatever the case, what ice swimmers are doing throughout the country is extraordinary. Last week, Jack Boyle of Camlough and Carmel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Radio New Zealand talks with Benoît Lecomte [middle in photo above] about The Longest Swim across the Pacific Ocean here.
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Courtesy of Gerry Rodrigues, Tower 26, Santa Monica Beach, California. Gerry Rodrigues in his second Be Race Ready podcast (see here) talks about framing a cycle of swim workouts, foundational swims, and how to construct a swim session with host Jim Lubinski. Under Coach Rodrigues’ guidance, a one-year period for competitive triathletes can be divided
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Photo by Simon Watts shows Kane Radford winning at the Legend of the Lake swim. Photo on left by Simon Watts shows Stefannie Gillespie crossing the finish line at the Legend of the Lake swim. Photo below by Simon Watts shows swimmers in the Legend of the Lake swim in Rotorua, New Zealand. The New
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 1.5 km Melbourne Swim Classic from Brighton to Elwood is in its third year. The Melbourne Swim Classic is a participation-based, community-fundraising open water swimming carnival. Held on Elwood Beach on March 13th (Labour Day Weekend) from 4 pm, there are events for the family inclusive of a
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