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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Celebrities and swimmers including Olympians Ryk Neethling and Terence Parkin, ocean swimmer Theodore Yach and former Miss South Africa Amy Kleinhans will compete in the third annual Bridge House Mile this weekend. Backed by Princess Charlene of Monaco, the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa and Speedo South […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Jeopardy! is a popular American television game show. First broadcast in 1964, Jeopardy! has been going strong for 6 decades. The answers are given first and three contestants compete for cash prizes and supply the questions. One of today’s answers involved the Oceans Seven, a series of seven channel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. TED Talks are a global set of conferences run by the non-profit Sapling Foundation under the slogan “Ideas Worth Spreading”. A number of open water swimmers have spoken at TED conferences around the world: Lewis Pugh, Diana Nyad, Maarten van der Weijden, Ori Sela, Vicki Keith, Dr. Peter Attia,
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Courtesy of Ori Sela who talks about the 377 km Cyprus Israel Relay Swim that was nominated for the 2014 World Open Water Swimming Performance of the Year. Sela talks about his experiences and effort in an unprecedented 6-man relay from Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea to his native Israel together with Udi Erell, Doron
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Zombie Patrol [shown above] are a pod of seriously minded, good-natured teenagers from San Diego, California who laugh and joke around as young athletes do – and they have come up with some clever nicknames for themselves. The nicknames are in line with the nicknames of their coaches
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From Meet Your Endurance Mind: Mindfulness Meditation for the Endurance Athlete by Bruckner Chase and Michelle Evans-Chase, Ph.D. at the Endurance Sports Expo Seminar Series in Philadelphia, U.S.A. on February 21st. “Mindfulness is a practice as well as a state…Mindfulness meditation is a practice in which we are an observer of our thoughts and actions
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Mark Johnston is expanding his offerings in the Montana open water swimming community after winning 2 events and finishing in the top 3 in two other events at the 2015 United States Winter Swimming Championships in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont this month. The former head coach of the LAKE Monsters
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Alba Zaragoza announced the Oceanwoman’s Ambassador Casting. “Do you love the sea? Swimming is your passion? Get ready to become the most shiny star of the sea and live awsome moments in the open water.” For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Results from the U.S. Winter Swimming Championships are posted here. Copyright © 2015 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers know the feeling well. It is dark; the sun is not close to rising. It is cold outside; it is difficult to get out of bed. It is too early; so easy to sleep in. But the desire to slumber back to sleep is countered by a deep
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