Reef & Run Redux In 2021 Courtesy of Jane Cairns, Santa Barbara, California. Jane Cairns, race director of the Reef & Run Series, had to come to the same conclusion of tens of thousands of other open water swimming race organizers. She wrote, "It is with a heavy heart that I announce our very difficult decision to cancel the Reef & Run 2020 season. I
2019 Reef & Run Series In Santa Barbara Courtesy of Reef & Run, Santa Barbara, California. The 2019 Reef & Run season began last week and will continue Thursday nights for another 10 weeks until August 29th when the ocean swim season culminates in the Boat to Beach race. "It is a great bargain at US$15 per night and the Thursday night schedule
Jean McKensie was a Carpinteria, California teenager who swam from Santa Barbara to Carpinteria in December 1926. The 19-year-old started together with Marjorie Buffington and Zane Steenrod along the West Coast of California, but she was the only person to finish according to the Press-Courier in Oxnard, California. Earlier that year, Steenrod made the
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. The world has innumerable locations for incredibly hard open water swims. Rough conditions, cold water, sharks, jellyfish, tides, currents, long distances, high altitudes and logistical considerations are the primary obstacles. What are some of the swims in the Northern Hemisphere that would be on the
This season's first Reef and Run ocean swim kicked off the 2013 series in Santa Barbara, California. The Reef and Run offered three races: The Santa Barbara Swim Club 500-meter swim, The Santa Barbara Triathlon 1k swim, and The Elite Performance 1-mile swim. In the Elite Performance 1-mile, women swept the first two finishers. The top 10 swimmers in the
Without wetsuits, in the dead of night, three swimmers braved the cold open-ocean to realize a dream...this is how filmmaker Ben Pitterle of Element 8 Productions opens DRIVEN. DRIVEN documents the experiences of three individuals as they attempted marathon swims across the Santa Barbara Channel. "Marathon swimming may not sound particularly glamorous.
