Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. In 1991, Australian Shelley Taylor-Smith won the overall title for the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation. She was the top swimmer among all the male and female participants in the professional series of marathon races that ranged from the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in Italy to the
Courtesy of Kurt Oeler from Lake Michigan, Illinois. Adam Dawkins and Adrienne Bicek claimed top honors at Saturday's Big Shoulders 5K, besting a field of 800 racing along Chicago’s chilly, choppy Lake Michigan shoreline. A notch better than 2013’s runnerup finish, Dawkins finished 2 laps in a relatively slow 1:04:32. A year ago under better conditions,
Southern Californian Mallory Mead wrote a newsletter article on the hardest thing she faces about being a marathon swimmer. "It's a difficult question to answer," the pro swimmer writes. "One might expect that the most difficult part about being a professional marathon swimmer is the 20-30 hours a week I spend in the pool, or pushing through the pain of
Mallory Mead is hosting a 4-day Manhattan Beach Channel Swimming Clinic in Southern California on April 24th-27th. The intensive channel swimming camp is held at the Terranea Resort, site of Catalina Channel crossing finishes, and at Manhattan Beach where marathon swimmers of note have been swimming back and forth 2 miles between the Manhattan Beach and
Imagine swimming across lac St-Jean in Quebec, Canada and another swimmer starts to push the pace. With over 10 km to go, you are tired but know that you have to start giving it your all. When do you continue to feed? Do you keep your own feeding schedule or do you modify your schedule to match your competitor? If they slow down, do you? If they speed
After the professional marathon races in Quebec, Canada, the organizers arrange for massages to the athletes. A few are hypothermic, but most are sore and extremely tired. But in the hands of the experienced masseurs, frowns usually turn to smiles, aches usually result in a post-swim soreness. The swimmers are wrapped in a heap of warm towels and
This morning, professional marathon swimmer Mallory Mead and Open Water Swim Club's Lexie Kelly battled throughout the 8km Slam the Dam swim in Lake Mead, Nevada. Back and forth the two Southern Californians went competed head-to-head surging and fading like the ebb and flow of the Las Vegas economy. Side-by-side at the start, the two took off in the
Investment banker Doug McConnell continues to step up his game in the open water swimming world. Last week, he completed his second channel of the Oceans Seven with a 12 hour 41 minute crossing of the Catalina Channel. His swim benefitted the Les Turner ALS Foundation of Skokie, Illinois. Known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), the constantly creative
Petar Stoychev didn't take long to remind the marathon world has good he is. Stoychev won the BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland by 2 minutes over rival Trent Grimsey. The English Channel record holder and 4-time Olympian won the 18 km sea swim from Hel to Gdynia in 3 hours 51 minutes. American Christine Jennings won the women's division in 4 hours 40
The stars are out for the BCT Gdynia Marathon in Poland with US$10,000 on the line for the first-place male and female finishers with a total pool of prizes amounts to US$28,000. Lead by Olympic marathon swimming gold medalist Eva Risztov of Hungary, the women's field includes 2 Olympic marathon swimmers, FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup winners, FINA
