Without Great Solitude, No Serious Work Is Possible Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Photo above shows Israeli swimmer Guy Cohen during his 24 hour Swim-From-the-Heart challenge 40 km south of Haifa, Israel. The famous Spanish painter Pablo Picasso once said, “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” Swimming in solitude is
Courtesy of Penny Nagel, Huntington Beach, California. Penelope Nagel, creator of the open water lingo swink*, swunk and swellunication, swims everyday in the Pacific Ocean at La Jolla Cove as a member of the 9:30's (also dubbed the Aqua-nuts). The La Jolla Cove co-mayor, she has swum 17 miles from Lanai to Napili, Maui in 2013 and a member of Beyond
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Penny Nagel recently coined a few new terms for the open water swimming community while training in La Jolla Cove near San Diego, California: swink, swank, swunk. To swink is to swim so far that the swimmer feels drunk. The past tense of swink is to swank and swunk. Nagel explains, "Some people call it
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Doug Stanley was going to shift the paradigm of open water swimming with the constant global, real-time coverage of selected open water swims, especially those unprecedented ultra-marathon swims across lakes, channels and oceans. Utilizing the SmackDab platform, fans can view open water swimmers no matter
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. As always, open water swimmers can Expect The Unexpected. If it isn't the wind and chop, it is jellyfish and tides. If it isn't something in the water, it is something on land. In the case of Beyond Avalon's unprecedented 76-mile (122 km) ocean relay from Catalina Island to La Jolla Cove near San Diego,
