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Our Open Water Boot Camp offers comprehensive, training sessions tailored to meet your needs. Qualifying swims for the English Channel or Manhattan are possible in Florida during the winter. Temperatures at Clearwater Beach in January and February usually hover around 60F, so we can help you train for cold water swimming or we can help you do a qualifying swim for the English Channel or Manhattan. Our warm summer waters are great for open water training with a concentration on technique, navigation, and training drills. Private training sessions last 4 to 8 hours. Price: $30/hr - Group sessions are also available. Call or Email to reserve your date.
The Fifteenth Annual 24 Mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim will be held on Saturday, April 21, 2012. Entry forms are now available for DOWNLOAD>>>
Check out our official gear! Just added 2011 TBMS TShirts, Hats, Water Bottles, Cups etc. Go There Now>>>
This 24 mile ultra-distance marathon swim race starts at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge and ends on the Courtney Campbell Causeway in Tampa in a race that covers the entire length of Tampa Bay. The event is held each year to celebrate Earth Day and the revitalization of Florida's largest estuary and is the longest race that is sanctioned by United States Masters Swimming.
For more information, contact:
The Tampa Bay Marathon Swim
Distance Matters, Inc.
Ron Collins, Race Director
PO Box 18004
Clearwater, FL 33762-9998
727.531.7999 | www.DistanceMatters.com
Email: Collins@tampabay.rr.com
With an emphasis on an even playing field for both swimmers and runners, the AQUATERRA Formula is a 1:4 ratio Swim to Run. The world record in the short course 1500 meter freestyle (swim) is 14:10. The world record in the indoor 1500 meter run is3:31. At their fastest, the runner would cover four times the distance of the swimmer in the same amount of time. By applying the AquaTerra Formula, the two Official AquaTerra Distances are the following: AT5K: Swim 1K/Run 4K; AT10K: Swim 2K/Run 8K. Our next event will be in June, 2012, and entry forms will be available on November 1st.
For more information, contact:
The AquaTerra Clearwater
Distance Matters, Inc.
Ron Collins, Race Director
PO Box 18004
Clearwater, FL 33762-9998
727.531.7999 | Email
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Swimming Everest - by Terry Tomalin of the St. Petersburg Times
The 21-mile crossing of the English Channel is the open-water peak for challengers such as Ron Collins. They call it the Everest of open-water swimming. "It doesn't matter how many times you have swum around Manhattan or across Tampa Bay," Collins said a few days before he would attempt to add his name to the record book. "When it comes to long-distance swims, there is only one that matters and that is the English Channel." MORE>>>
Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, June, 2002 One Lap, 28.5 Miles - by Terry Tomalin of the St. Peterburg Times
This race took place only 9 months after 9.11.01 and the 28 Mile Manhattan Island Marathon Swim starts and finishes near Ground Zero. The circumnavigation of the island of Manhattan took about 8 hours to swim, but all thoughts were still on the tragic events that took place nearby. MORE>>>