Shannon House Keegan Talks Marathon Swimming Stories
Shannon House Keegan produces several dozens of Marathon Swim Stories in a long-form podcast format about emerging and veteran marathon swimmers.
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Somewhere Over The Rainbow Are 100x100s
Back in the mid-1970's, former Harvard University coach Joe Bernal presented an unprecedented challenge to his 16-year-old swimmer Bobby Hackett with some very tough distance freestyle sets including a set of 100x100 (yards) freestyle on 1:00. Hackett's tough, gut-busting workouts paid off as he swam to a silver medal in 15 minutes 3 second in the 1500m
Open Water Swimmers For Endurance Research Survey
Courtesy of Paul Anstiss, Endurance Research Group, University of Kent. Paul Anstiss is a Sport Psychology Ph.D. researcher at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom who is part of the Endurance Research Group. The focus of Anstiss' research is to investigate psychological factors such as self-belief and confidence in endurance sport with a focus on
Who Are They And Where Did They Come From?
Who Are They And Where Did They Come From? Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (IMSHOF) currently has 272 inductees from 39 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Great Britain,
What Goes Around, Comes Around: Diving Deep
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Channel swimmers, ice swimmers, marathon swimmers and open water swimmers around the world use relatively little equipment, but what they use comes from a long history. While some channel swimmers use Channel grease, lanolin and a variety of other combinations including Vaseline, Desitin and axle grease
Commonalities Between Sushi Chefs And Swimmers
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Peanut butter and jelly go together. So does beer and snacks as do bacon and eggs. But the commonalities between master sushi chefs do not always bring to mind open water swimmers. But key attributes of master sushi chefs reminds us of the essential characteristics commonly shown by renowned channel
Guanabara Bay Is Not Copacabana Beach
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Stephen Wade of Associated Press wrote an article that was reported by ABC News...that continues to imply that the conditions in Rio de Janeiro for marathon swimmers and triathletes are dangerously dirty and unsafe for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Wade reports on the obviously polluted conditions of
Are You Ready For The Open Water?
"All things are ready, if our minds be so," wrote Shakespeare in Henry V. The same can be said for open water swimming especially if one's preparation is optimized. But competitive swimmers, solo swimmers, newbies, and ice swimmers can face different issues. While athletes like Petar Stoychev, Greta Andersen, Paul Asmuth, and Shelley Taylor-Smith competed
Anthony McCarley Taking It To Another Level
Anthony McCarley is from Berwyn, Pennsylvania who is one-third the way to his goal of achieving the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. After a 13 hour 29 minute crossing of the English Channel in 2013, he has his sights on completing a circumnavigation around Manhattan Island on June 28th and a Catalina Channel crossing 3 weeks later on July 19th. The
Mallory Mead Channeling Confidence And Camaraderie
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