Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Huntington Beach, California. International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honor Swimmer Marilyn Bell is a dual inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Swimmer in the Class of 1967 and in the International Swimming Hall of Fame as an Honor Open Water Swimmer in the Class of 2020 Ned Denison
Elaine Howley Making, Documenting History On WOWSA Live Sponsored by KAATSU Global, Boston, Massachusetts. Elaine Howley, an ice swimmer, channel swimmer, marathon swimmer, event director and veteran crew member, is best known for her comprehensive historical pieces on marathon swimmers that entertain and educate the swimming community around the world.
Are Water Temperatures Getting Warmer? Courtesy of Pieter De Frenne, Lisa Van Langenhove, Alain Van Driessche, Cédric Bertrand, Kris Verheyen and Pieter Vangansbeke, Methods in Ecology and Evolution. In the United States, there exists an ongoing debate whether or not climate change is a concept to be concerned about - or do anything about. Science
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. According to the Channel Swimming Association, Peter Frayne was an observer on Florence Chadwick's swim and had to jump in the English Channel to guide her after the water pump on her escort boat failed within three miles of shore. Prior to that call of duty, Frayne was below decks on her escort boat
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. A swim out - paddle-out will be held at La Jolla Cove on June 28th for Janet Hill Lamott who passed away late last month. The long-time member of the La Jolla Cove Swim Club, Lamott was the then-oldest (at 61 years) woman to swim from one Hawaiian island to another (Lanai to Maui across the Maui Channel).
Penny Lee Dean, the long-time record holder of the English Channel (7 hours 40 minutes from England to France in 1978) and the Catalina Channel (7 hours 15 minutes from California to Catalina Island in 1976), launched her fourth open water swimming book on Amazon in December. Her 196-page softback entitled "Just Try One More" is a page-turner for all those
Dr. Jane Katz, a recent inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame, is a woman who constantly wears a smile. Full of positive energy and endless enthusiasm for aquatics, we recently had the opportunity to hear about her friendships and interactions with everyone from the daughter of Captain Matthew Webb, Gertrude Ederle and Florence
Donald Watkinds has been the race announcer of the biggest and longest continuously running open water race in America, the La Jolla Rough Water Swim in California. "I have been announcing La Jolla since 1971 together with Florence Chadwick was also swimming the event and have been announcing for a long time." In a few years, the renowned multi-race
Bert Thomas was 17 years old during World War II when he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. After a tough boot camp typical of the Marines, he was sent to the Pacific theater and fought in the bloody battles in the Marshal Islands, Saipan, and Iwo Jima. Trained and experienced in amphibious assaults, Thomas quickly learned to swim in the ocean as a native of
Megan Colletto, William Lunn, Kirstin Karfonta, Jeffrey Anderson and Nancy Rodriguez of the University of Connecticut looked at the consumption of fat-free chocolate milk by moderately trained, young endurance runners after an endurance workout. The runners participated in a two-week randomized study where they consumed either chocolate milk or an
