When you are battling neck-and-neck with another competitor, what is the wisest move to make? Do you veer into your rival and take him away from the straight-line tangent to the finish? Do you swim straight and parallel to your opponent? Do you feign fatigue, fall back at his hips, and then make a final burst closer to the finish? All those different
The men's 3-mile race at the Seal Beach Rough Water Swim was a classic ocean competition that culminated in an exciting onshore beach finish. The mano-a-mano battle started right from the start between two Mission Viejo Nadadores teammates, Dan O'Connor from the University of North Carolina and Jan Daniec from the University of Virginia. Stroke-for-stroke
Both the 1-mile and the 3-mile races at the Seal Beach Rough Water Swim start high up on the hard sand beach. This allows the crowd standing onshore and from the vantage point of the wooden pier to enjoy watching the swimmers of all ages and abilities hustle down the sand and dolphin through the surf into the Pacific Ocean - and back to the finish. The
