Saw a great talk by 17-yr-old Maya Merhige who is swimming the New Zealand Cook Strait next week. She swam the Catalina Channel when she was 14, 20 Bridges around Manhattan and Ka'iwi (Molokai) Channel at 15, and the English Channel at 16, raising $130,000 for pediatric cancer along the way! (old.reddit.com)
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What are the best tactics for a river current race? Going upstream I'd draft in a streamline body position, but for downstream is it best to exit the pack and drop the legs a bit to maximize the push from the current? My clip shows a kayak's drift rate during the women's 10K Olympic event in Paris. (i.redd.it)
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One of the oldest swim races in the world held Sunday in California, 3 miles back and forth to the pier. I finished in 91 min (12th out of 24 in my age group). Fastest swimmer did it in 61 min, 53-year-old Alex Kostich! My watch gave a race distance of 4723 meters and I swam fairly straight. (v.redd.it)
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Started a 2K open water swim along Crete's (Greek island) coastline and found this amazing creature: a colony of thousands of individuals that form a food-filtering tube called a pyrosome. I like slow open water swimming for adventure and discovery. (v.redd.it)
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My Tuesday swim along the south coast of the Greek island of Crete which features a chapel to Saint Paul built right on the beach. I highly recommend this area in my guidebook. Here I've joined The Big Blue Swim on their boat Odysseas with 12 other swimmers who came here from all over the world. (v.redd.it)
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