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Category Archives: Open Water Swimming

The Anacapa Kid

On September 28 of this year, Kaustubh Vemuri, a 10-year-old from Pune, India, swam from Anacapa Island to Oxnard (in California), becoming the youngest person to cross the Santa Barbara Channel. It was not his first major swim; among other feats, he completed a 72 km swim in India when only eight.
When I learned of [...]

Swim North Dakota

I have a dream: swim an open water race in every state of the union. I’m well on my way; so far I’ve raced in one state. Only 49 to go.
I’d like to start with North Dakota — of all the states I visited during the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial, it was clearly my favorite. [...]