Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kristin Jones from Arizona and Stephen Rouch from Indiana earned the famed S.C.A.R. Buckles for the fastest cumulative times over the 4-day, 4-lake, 4-stage S.C.A.R. Challenge in Arizona. The Saguaro Lake (9.5 miles or 15.2 km), Canyon Lake (9 miles or 14.4 km), Apache Lake (17 miles or 27.3 km), and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Kristin Jones (Arizona), Kimberly Plewa (New Jersey), Sarah Thomas (Colorado), Chris Greene (Georgia), and John Humenik (Pennsylvania) will tackle the 'City of Steel' 30K Three Rivers Marathon Swim (#3RMS) on August 1st in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Race founder Darren Miller explains, "Beginning under the
The S.C.A.R. Swim Challenge has a wonderful way to showcase veteran and emerging marathon swimmers. Last year, Grace van der Byl swept all four legs of the 4-day stage swim. She won the 9.5-mile (15.2 km) stage swim in Saguaro Lake on Day 1, the 9-mile (14.4 km) stage swim in Canyon Lake on Day 2, the 17-mile (27.3 km) stage swim in Apache Lake on Day 3, and
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The last time we followed young Kristin Jones from Juneau, Alaska, she was winning a slew of races in the Lower 48 States in all kinds of venues. She won the women's title at the WOWSA World 10-mile Swimming Championships in Vermont, finished the 12.3-mile Swim Around Key West in 5 hours 16 minutes, won the
Prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, blueseventy and its innovative swimwear were all the rage. But the changes in FINA rules and in the marketplace, we had not heard much of blue seventy lately. Until recently. Kristin Jones and Laura Val are among blueseventy's ambassadors. Jones is an elite open water swimmer in one of the most unlikeliest of
"Swimming in two races, on two consecutive days, in two different towns in Alaska was definitely challenging, but also incredibly rewarding." So says Kristin Jones, the overall winner in both events. "Both races [the 8.2-mile Pennock Island Challenge in Ketchikan and the 5 km race Change Your Latitude event in Sitka] went fantastic. Everything went so
From Juneau, Alaska, Kristin Jones traveled across the North American continent and won the 2013 World Open Water Swimming Association 10 Mile World Championship at the Kingdom Swim in Lake Memphremagog, Vermont. After reeling in the leaders including Emma Otto-Moudry over the second half of the 16.2 km course, we asked Jones about the Kingdom Swim.
At the Fifth Annual Kingdom Swim signature race, age proved a valuable asset to climb a top the podium. Maturity showed and stamina was sustained on both the men's and women's side when 20-somethings were able to out-swim some pretty tough and seasoned teenagers. Post college graduates gradually got the upper hand in the challenging 10-mile world
