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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alli DeFrancesco is a marathon swimmer and runner from California. A cancer survivor, she swims to raise money for First Descents, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering young adult cancer patients and survivors to defy their illness and regain their lives through outdoor adventures. She is engaged to fellow […]
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Courtesy of the 2015 Ice Swimming World Championships and 10th Russian Ice Swimming Championships in Murmansk, Russia.
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Courtesy of Jane Hansom of Sponge Marketing. Nevis is a premium destination in the Caribbean. It is a hidden undiscovered gem favoured by the discerning traveller due to the privacy and exclusivity that the island affords. It is not a cheap destination. There are no all-inclusive hotels and cruise ships and fast food restaurants are
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “The plan is to swim out and back,” so simply says Captain Vito Bialla of the two-way Farallon relay. SEQUEL, the escort boat that has taken the Night Train Swimmers on its various adventures, will depart from the San Francisco Yacht Club on the morning of April 25th. Patti
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life,” so said Sherlock Holmes in The Reigate Puzzle. And so does Australian triathlete and open water swimmer Eric Watson who set out to do the unusual
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Memphremagog Winter Swimming Society was formed on April 17th by Phil White of the Kingdom Games. “Our purpose is simple: to build on and improve on the success of this past February’s inaugural winter swim on Lake Memphremagog and to assure the continuation of winter swimming at this
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Eons ago, the Vikings were extraordinarily skilled navigators in the harsh oceanic conditions. According to ancient lore, the Vikings used a magical stone that could pinpoint the sun despite heavy cloud cover, allowing them to navigate in otherwise impossible conditions. Scientists believe the sunstone was the mineral “iolite.” In
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With 100 days until the first Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualifier in Kazan, Russia, top-level marathon swimmers are really focused on their final preparations. The qualification procedures for the 2016 Olympic 10K Marathon Swim will be the same* as it was in 2008 and 2012 where the selection process
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. At today’s Swim Miami 10 km marathon swim in Biscayne Bay near the cruise ship docking stations, a great number feeders and mixers waited patiently on a narrow deck for nearly 180 marathon swimmers to pass and hand them their mixes, foods and drinks. Spending 2-3 hours sitting on
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Following in the footsteps of his father (Robert Strauss, shown above), Jonathan Strauss put on another great show at today’s Swim Miami. Starting off with the 800m swim and then the Miami Mile and 5 km and 10 km race, Biscayne Bay in Miami was filled with nearly 1,000
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