Courtesy of The Great Lake Swim, an attempt to swim 71 miles across Lake Michigan by Jamie Patrick. "It is with great sadness and disappointment that we announce the cancellation of The Great Lake Swim this summer. Words are extremely hard to come by as I have been planning, training and dreaming of this swim for the past 8 months. Due to lack of
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. It is unprecedented for the endurance athlete community and general public to witness exactly what happens during an ultra-marathon swim. While news coverage, photos and bits and pieces of video of ultra-marathon swimmers have been shown over the past century, Jamie Patrick and Ridgeline Entertainment will
Courtesy of The Great Lake Swim by Jamie Patrick, produced by Doug Stanley of Ridgeline Entertainment. For more information, visit here. Copyright © 2014 by World Open Water Swimming Association
Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. California ultra-marathon swimmer Jamie Patrick has 3 months to go before his unprecedented Great Lake Swim. The swim date has been moved back to August 18th and the distance has been settled upon 71 miles between Milwaukee Bay and Ohio Street Beach in Chicago Harbor. The Wisconsin-to-Illinois swim is
Jamie Patrick announced the dates of his swim window for The Great Lake Swim, a critical decision for ultra-marathon swims. "After many hours analyzing data provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as well as Weather Underground, we have decided that we will open The Great Lake Swim window August 7th and end it August 12th.
Doug Stanley and his team at Ridgeline Entertainment are going to create a ubiquitous online presence on and with Facebook, SmackDab and traditional media (television, print, radio) surrounding Jamie Patrick's 90-mile (144.8 km) Great Lake Swim in August. With more than 50 hours of programming planned of Patrick's 90-mile crossing of Lake Michigan - and
Jamie Patrick is estimating his 90-mile (144.8 km) solo crossing of Lake Michigan from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Chicago, Illinois will take about 55 hours. And his non-wetsuit swim, called The Great Lake Swim, will be a media broadcast like no other, an unprecedented feat in itself. Patrick's marathon swim will be unique: * the swim will be broadcast live
Jamie Patrick, the 2011 World Open Water Swimming Man of the Year, announced his attempt to once again GO BIG. In August 2014, Patrick with the talents of his logistics and operations team will attempt a 90-mile (144.k km) lake swim in history. He is calling the solo even, The Great Lake Swim. His website states, "On so many levels, Jamie's next
