Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Round Two of the 22-mile The Swim Around The Islands goes to Mother Nature. So far, She is up 2-0 on the relay quartet of Joe Rainero (49, shown above), Matt Maurer (38), Triple Crowner Lance Ogren (44), and Mike Stresemann (54). Rainero summarized their effort, "We successfully determined another way not
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is all for one and one for all with Joe Rainero (49, shown above), Matt Maurer (38), Triple Crowner Lance Ogren (44), and Mike Stresemann (54). The quarter will attempt a relay swim in South Carolina tomorrow where they will swim around Sullivan's Island and the Isle of Palms. The 22-mile course map for
New York's Lance Ogren successfully completed the final leg of his Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming today with a successful Catalina Channel swim in 10 hours 16 minutes. Escorted by Captain John Pittman on the Outrider, his observers were Tina Neill and Becky Jackman-Beeler, two other members of the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. So he was in
Emma Otto-Moudry was blazing fast in shattering the 17.5-mile Ederle Swim course record from Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Manhattan Island in a time of 4 hours 38 minutes yesterday. The previous record was held by Evan Morrison in 5 hours 24 minutes. NYC Swim organized a record attempt based on favorable tides that the young 17-year-old from Ithaca, New York
The history of swimming between Manhattan Island in New York and Sandy Hook in New Jersey dates back almost 100 years. The course has become increasingly popular since NYC Swim's first Ederle Swim in 2006. In 2011, Liz Fry set the records for one-way swims in both directions. Later, local New Yorker Lance Ogren broke the overall course record for
The Ederle Swim, started in 1925, is along a 17.5-mile (28K) course from New Jersey to New York. It is always a tough swim with 7 out of 11 swimmers finishing in 2007, 1 out of 13 swimmers finishing in 2008 and 3 out of 13 finishing in 2009. 2010 looks to be another tough year, especially with strong winds (30 mph or 48 kph).But the NYC Swim race
