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Photos and information courtesy of Dr. Dave Ogden on board the SEQUEL riding out to the Farallon Islands. “The plan is to swim out and back,” so simply says Captain Vito Bialla. But nothing out and back to the Farallon Islands is so simple. Veteran Patti Bauernfeind [shown above and below] was the lead-off swimmer […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Philippines is an archipelago of 7,107 islands. As swimming coach Betsy Medalla explains, “Swimming in open water is free. Long distance open water swimming evens out the playing field; it is less about might or arm span, and leans more toward strategy and determination. We should excel at
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Courtesy of Take It Live Productions, USA Swimming, and WOWSA. When Haley Anderson has defeated her long-time like Ashley Twichell, Eva Fabian, Emily Brunemann, Stephanie Peacock, Tristin Baxter, and Becca Mann in a national 10 km race, she has always stuck to her tried-and-true strategy of coming from behind like the renowned Russian Olympic champion
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When Ashley Twichell has defeated her long-time rivals like Haley Anderson, Eva Fabian, Emily Brunemann, Stephanie Peacock, Tristin Baxter, and Becca Mann in a national 10 km race, she has always stuck to her tried-and-true strategy of going for it early. 1 hour 15 minutes into the race, Twichell
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Haley Anderson wants to return to the Olympics after her silver medal performance at the 2012 London Games. After the first 2 km at the USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in perfectly flat, warm waters in Miramar Lake in Fort Myers, Florida, she is swimming in the lead
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Courtesy of WOWSA from Sunset Beach, California. As the tankers and cargo ships gradually clear from the Catalina Channel and return to plowing across the Pacific Ocean rather than sitting anchored in the San Pedro Channel near the Long Beach Harbor, the deadline approaches to receive a discount sanction fee from the Catalina Channel Swimming
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Historical Society of Central Florida will announce on May 9th that Lucky’s Lake Swim is a significant occurrence in Central Florida history. Lucky’s Lake Swim has been a staple event for not only Central Floridians, but for many Americans, Olympians and international visitors from 50 countries over the
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Courtesy of Ron Collins for tomorrow’s 18th annual Tampa Bay Marathon Swim, Florida.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After the two pre-race favorites, Becca Mann and Haley Anderson, qualified earlier in the morning for the women’s 10 km 2015 FINA World Championship qualification race in Miromar Lake in Fort Myers, Florida, the men’s subsequent race took all types of twists and turns with an unlikely finish. The
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Historic Aquatic Park May Be Lost To Commercial Interests Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are several iconic venues in the open water swimming world from Dover to Manhattan Island. These locations provide not only historical perspectives, but also present continued opportunities for future open water swimmers. One of these most hallowed grounds is
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