Kara Robertson has put open water swimming on the map in Nevada in the middle of the American southwestern desert. Few open water swimming races in America have grown as rapidly as the Slam The Dam event in Las Vegas. But because the event is held on Lake Mead National Recreation Area, the U.S. federal government shut-down has led to the closure of the
Kara Robertson has put open water swimming on the map in the middle of the American desert. She is hosting the U.S. Masters Swimming 10K National Open Water Swimming Championships along with a 5K and 1-mile open water swims in Lake Mead. The championships will be held on May 18th, but early bird registration ends on March 31st. Already swimmers from 16
If man had lived and swam in the oceans 244 million years ago, swimmers would found themselves swimming among some really huge sea monsters, a 8.6-meter-long reptile with lots of sharp teeth. The creature, described online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was an early ichthyosaur that existed for a relatively short 4 million
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
Kara Robertson envisions...and delivers. Robertson dreamed of an open water swim in the desert of Nevada. She researched what is required, she inquired what swimmers wanted and then she set about delivering big-time. Caravans of adult swimmers from the neighboring states head to Las Vegas not for the casinos, clubs, restaurants and shows, but for the Slam
The Southern Pacific Masters runs a summer season open water series. The overall male and female high point winners were Bryan Buck and Tanya MacLean. The series included the Seal Beach Rough Water Swim (1 and 3 miles), Semana Nautica (6 miles), Balboa to Newport Pier-to-Pier (2 miles), Naples Island Swim (1 and miles), Don Burns Corona del Mar Swim (1
Older veterans ruled the new Slam The Dam race in Las Vegas, Nevada this weekend.World record holder Daniel Slosberg, who did a two-way crossing of the Catalina Channel back in 1978, won the Gland Slam event in a time of 2:36 for the 8K + 1.2K races. Bryan Buck of Irvine, California won the Super Slam event in 1:24:34 for the 2.4K + 1.2K races."We had a
