Swimming In The Ocean With Zombies
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Yesterday, the Monster Mile was held in Newport Beach, California.
The Monster Mile is a 2-mile biathlon for children that includes a 1-mile ocean swim and 1-mile ocean run. It is sponsored and organized by the Newport Beach Junior Lifeguards and held annually in August.
Participants wear costumes and use fins for the swim. This year’s theme was zombies.
The kids run a mile and swim a mile with their fins . 9-year-old girl Sofia Del Villar with the pink fins won [see above]. [Olympic champion] Aaron Peirsol was there at the event helping too. The surf was big, so it was a pretty exciting ocean experience for all of the kids and parents.
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff.
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