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World Open Water Swimming Federation, a human-powered project
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Khalid Bin Hamad Swim Challenge is a 31.5 km swim between Saudi Arabia and Bahrin. The charity swim for cancer is a follow-on challenge that was first accomplished by His Highness Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa who swam 42 km in 20+ hours between Saudi Arabia and […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. “I tell people to follow your heart, follow your passion – and you will find that life’s journey will show you amazing people, places, and adventures,” so advises winter swimmer Capri Djatiasmoro. The 60-something New Yorker says of her own journey that began with the Coney Island Polar Bears
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Open water swimming is typically a non-angular sport. There is a unique randomness to the open water. Although general patterns exist with tides and currents, any one location in an open body of water does not have the strict specificity of a swimming pool. The randomness may be generated
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. You can get to the backside of Molokai Island in various ways, but none of them are as easy as taking the Tube in London, Diamond Lane in Los Angeles, or the train in Tokyo. You can travel them on the backs on horses, by light aircraft, or if
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Is the swimmer happy or sad, energized or exhausted, defeated or victorious, racing or training, hyperthermic or hypothermic, alone or following a pack, in an ocean or in a lake, swimming in the am or in the pm, famished or full, neoprened or bioprened, soloing or relaying? Copyright ©
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With Happy Helen Lin‘s accomplishment of the Ice Mile in Boston, it brings to mind a series of interesting questions related to age versus cold water acclimatization. The first question is, “At what age does one ‘peak’ for cold water acclimatization? Is it in an athlete’s teenage years or
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Lake Toba is the largest lake in Indonesia and the largest and deepest volcanic crater lake in the world. Site of the Lake Toba Festival, the lake was formed 75,000 years ago after a volcano eruption. It is 906 meters above sea level with an average depth of 450m.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Biathlons are generally considered to be swim-run or bike-run competitions popular among triathletes and multi-sport athletes. The lifesaving competitions popular in Australia and other ocean communities are also examples of multi-sport races where athletes test their skills in various ways whether it is swimming, paddling, kayaking and running. But
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Before the days of the International Winter Swimming Association and the International Ice Swimming Association, far far away from the Russian, Czech and Chinese centers for cold water swimming, outside the hallowed winter swimming venues of Boston and London, there are various pockets of winter swimming excellence and excitement.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Renowned extreme swimmers from South Africa, Andrew Chin and Toks Viviers, will swim 200 km along the polluted Wilge River in the Free State to highlight the plight of South Africa’s deteriorating waterways. Chin and Toks Viviers will take on the Wilge River in a 10-day stage swim downstream
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