Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. We remember the first time that we saw American football star Marcellus Wiley swim in a pool. He thrashed and he splashed. He certainly moved, but not necessarily in the forward motion. Throughout his career as one of the best football players in America, he had always started each play by taking in a
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Dan Beeman finds himself in rarified air among race directors in the open water swimming world. Occasionally, a race director will organize an event in 2 different countries, but Beeman will be organizing his third event in a third country. After stints in California and Panama, Beeman will hold another
True courage is often seen in various forms in the world of open water swimming. People of all ages, abilities and backgrounds often demonstrate the true potential of the human spirit.This past weekend in the Pacific Ocean visually-impaired Aaron Scheidies let us see courage through his efforts at the Distance Swim Challenge.Moments before Aaron's heat was
At the 12.6-mile Distance Swim Challenge in Santa Monica, California, Ironman Clayton Treska caught Greg Kovacs was the last swimmer who just barely got under the time limit. Nearly 10 hours and 35 minutes in the water, stroke after stroke never giving up, Greg went running up the beach, not quite the winner, but certainly a champion. With his wife's eyes
Mark Warkentin, an American Olympian, stayed true to the straight-line tangent between the 3-meter blueseventy buoys at the 12.6-mile Distance Swim Challenge while Ky Hurst, the Australian Olympian, took advantage of his surf skills and took the inside track - inside the breakers.The strategies were distinctively different. While Mark was swimming straight
Besides the Olympian vs. Olympian vs. world champion race that will highlight the Distance Swim Challenge in Santa Monica, California, the personable and ever-energetic Eney Jones will come down from her Rocky Mountain retreat to compete in the 12.6-mile ocean swim.Eney is a former top swimmer at the University of Florida, a 20-time finalist at the USA
OptimisSport is organizing the first new major international professional swim in Los Angeles County since the early 1990's. In a part of the world where tens of thousands of triathletes and endurance athletes regularly take to the ocean and streets, it is refreshing to see a new marathon swim come on the scene. The Distance Swim Challenge offers a
