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Courtesy of Nuala Moore, Ireland. The concept of team has always been of colossal significance in distance swimming, but its significance in ice is more a life-support mechanism and a bridge between the swimmer and the event. It is unrealistic for ice swimmers to exit the water in a capacity to manage their own recovery […]
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Courtesy of Nuala Moore in Peddlers Lake at 2-3°C and 450m in altitude in Conor Pass, Ireland. High up in her native Ireland facing brutally low water temperatures, Nuala Moore practiced for the inaugural Ice Swimming World Championships in Murmansk, Russia and other ice swimming ventures around northern climes. The shared passion, focus and camaraderie
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. There are plenty of open water swims across lakes and down rivers, plenty of channel crossings, and plenty of competitions where the winds whip up and the swells hit swimmers head-on. Many swimmers describe fighting against the turbulence and oncoming surface chop as swimming uphill. Every stroke feels like
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Serbo Simeoni finished the 2015 Tampa Bay Frogman Swim on the west coast of Florida in 1 hour 14 minutes. The two videos below show how the attorney from Florida appeared before and after the annual 5 km January event that he completed without a wetsuit, using it as
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Courtesy of Francismar Siviero from Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Grêmio Náutico União’s Betina Lorscheitter won each of the three races in the Circuito Light Rei e Rainha do Mar event on Copacabana Beach this past weekend. The professional marathon swimmer and university student won the 1 km Sprint in 11:21, the 2 km
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo of Lorna Cochran and sons above is courtesy of Anthony Grote/Gameplan Media. Lots of athletes experience peaks in their athletic careers in high school. Others peak in their university years and a select few continue on to peak at World Championships, the Olympics or as professional athletes. The
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Courtesy of National Geographic from the Amazon River.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The memorial service and paddle out in honor of David Yudovin will be held on April 3rd at Leffingwell Park in Cambria, California at 3:00 pm. Not only was Yudovin a renowned channel swimmer and boatman, but he was also a gifted entrepreneur who guided successful seafood companies and
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pedro Ordenes of Water World Swim is an icon in the San Francisco Bay open water swimming community. The renowned cold water swimmer, coach and prolific open water swim organizer has a deep passion for the sport. Besides organizing local open water swims, weekly workouts and clinics, he will
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Courtesy of WOWSA on Earnheart Beach in Florida. Driving along the highway from Tampa, one of open water swimming’s most impressive starts was held. In the midst of hundreds of cars and thousands of individuals, the organizers of the Tampa Bay Frogman Swim conducted a solemn ceremony that paid tribute to fallen Navy SEALs. Videos
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