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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 2nd annual 5 km race, The Five, is held on November 9th with a start and finish at South Bay Beach in Hong Kong. This year, there will also be a Junior Five category for youth at 250m and 400m. “We will also have the ability to put […]
Courtesy of Doug Woodring in Hong Kong at the 8th annual Clean Half Extreme Marathon Swim. 15 km from Stanley to Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong is a challenging course has a bit of everything including 800m cliff wall where swimmers can sometimes body-surf along the course. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water
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Occasionally, these athletic feats take on different forms far removed from swimming brief and goggles. The marathon monks of Mount Hiei located outside Kyoto, Japan where there is a traditional 46,000-kilometer undertaking where selected monks walk, meditate and pray in the Kaihōgyō ritual for 1,000 days. Their road to enlightenment and process of self-denial requires
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Courtesy of in Šabac, a town in Serbia that is the site of the annual Epiphany Swimming for the Holy Cross of Honour as well as the finish point of the Jarak-Šabac Marathon Swim, formally known as the Plivački maraton Jarak-Šabac (“Peace Race”), a professional 19 km marathon swimming event in the Sava River. Copyright
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sometimes, people know from a young age. Other times, it takes self-discovery in university. For others, it may take years or decades to find their niche and passion in life. But once that love of accomplishing something is found, there is often no turning back. Sam Krohn has found
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SCAR SWIM 2014 from Kent Nicholas on Vimeo. As organizer Kent Nicholas explains about the S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge 2014, “It was hard to fit four days, four lakes and roughly 40 miles of swimming into 5 minutes … but here goes [see above]. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, remembering that swimming is about having
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dr. Nataliya Fatyanova is one of the world’s leading researchers and physicians when it comes to ice swimming. With the help of her willing subjects who are constantly pushing themselves in frigid water temperatures, Dr. Fatyanova is exploring and adding to her knowledge about the physiological boundaries of winter
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. After an unanticipated stay in the hospital due to severe sea wasp stings that became infected, Chloë McCardel was released from a local hospital earlier today. As she tries to catch up on her communications, she continues to manage her injuries and is not able to walk more than
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Celebrities Nicholas Cage, Matt Dillon, Rob Lowe, Sandra Bullock, Elle Macpherson, Russell Crowe, Stephen Colbert, Lenny Kravitz, Courteney Cox, Courtney Love, Keanu Reeves, and Marisa Tomei are at the tail end of the Baby Boomer generation, but these well-known stars are still celebrating 50 years on Planet Earth. With
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Like Mavericks in northern California, North Shore on Oahu, Okinawa in Japan, Robben Island in South Africa, Cancun in Mexico, it took generations before swimmers, surfers and marine enthusiasts discovered these iconic locations of raw beauty that provide dynamically picturesque venues for human adventure. Sam Krohn [shown below] teamed
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