Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

David Heron, Alex Meyer, and Sam Rice are going to bang heads with Yasunari Hirai of Japan and Richard Weinberger of Canada at the upcoming 2016 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships next week in Florida.

But they will be used to it by next Friday.

They have been going head-to-head on a twice-daily basis at the University of Tennessee in preparation for the USA championships and upcoming Olympic 10K Marathon Swim.

For an entry list of the 10 km race, see here.

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