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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In the morning, they are decked out in swimwear and goggles. With their hair often bundled up in a swim cap and goggles over their eyes, swimmers often look dramatically different than when they are dressed for work. But the same intensity and intelligence, the same sacrifice and stamina, […]
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. With a successful Catalina Channel crossing, Ciaran Byrne became the fourth Sandycove (Ireland) swimmer and the 92nd individual overall to achieve the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. Sandycove Island, the new mecca of marathon swimming, is now possibly the most prolific training grounds of Triple Crowners other than
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The 15-mile Border Buster is a legal exception to the rule of law. Passports and border checks are required when crossing the border between Canada and the United States. But Phil White created an international means to cross the border without showing your passport with the inaugural Border Buster
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Cameron Keith is a 15-year-old vision-impaired swimmer who will attempt to swim 27.1 km between Green Island and Yorkey’s Knob, a beach suburb of Cairns, Australia on August 3rd. If his charity swim on behalf of the Fred Hollows Foundation goes well, he will also attempt a Molokai Channel
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Kingdom Games has started in the state of Vermont and it is skewing older. Masters swimmer Jeffrey Stuart from Manchester is another one of the stalwart marathon swimmers from the state of Connecticut. The 53-year-old won the 2014 WOWSA 10-Mile World Swimming Championships in Lake Memphremagog in 4:24:17.
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The Kingdom Games have started in the state of Vermont. 23-year-old Eileen Mullowney of Burlington, Vermont won 2014 WOWSA 10-Mile World Swimming Championships in Lake Memphremagog in 4:37:23. 39-year-old Karen Scherer of Waitsfield, Vermont was second with 37-year-old Abigail Fairman of New York City in third. The Top 10
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stand up paddling started to become popular in 2005. As the SUP volunteers started to volunteer in open water swims around the world, the sport of open water swimming was enhanced. SUP paddlers can see more of the course due to their standing position as opposed to the prone
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Anthony McCarley knows well the ebbs and flows of the ocean as a long-time abalone fisherman from northern California. He understands its unpredictability and challenges. But McCarley now lives in part of the world where it is difficult to train for channel swims. In fact, only he and Darren
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. When things go south in the open water, swimmers can quickly feel themselves spiraling down a negative vortex. Whether the swimmer is facing seasickness or hypothermia, it is easy and natural for the athlete to start feeling sorry for themselves or frustrated. Throwing up or shivering are excellent conduits
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Carina Bruwer completed two Swims For Hope in Italy – a rough 14.5 km crossing of the Strait of Bonifacio and a quadruple 12.8 km crossing of the Strait of Messina. In a retrospective that is par for the course for South African swimmers, Bruwer thought the “turbulence was
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