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Jenny Smith, Extremely Extraordinaire

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Jenny Smith  of Tennessee just completed the four-day, four-stage  SCAR Swim Challenge  in Arizona.  She said of the  2022  World Open Water Swimming Event of the Year , " What an incredible event and awesome experience.  SCAR has been on my wishlist, and I am still reveling in it.  I cannot believe how  Kent Nicholas  and his swim support family pulls off such an enormous event, I am still in SCAR swim bliss ." While many of the marathon swimmers and channel swimmers thought the water was cold, Smith is an experienced, well-prepared extreme athlete.  " I was fortunate to have almost four weeks of cold water training right before SCAR, an informal swim camp with my Irish pod in Mallorca, and two weeks in Ireland, and Swimquest Channel and Long Distance week in Croatia.   So I did not mind the cold, although it did take me quite awhile to warm up in Canyon Lake.  I was kind of slow (off my pace for sure), but I think I was conserving and concerned about endurance ."
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Michael Rice, Catherine Breed Win The 2023 SCAR Swim

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The 2023 SCAR Swim Challenge was another grand success.   The brainchild of visionary Kent Nicholas  [shown below] had won the 2022 World Open Water Swimming Event of the Year and had attracted a multi-faceted, multi-talented group of prolific marathon swimmers and their escort kayakers from around the world.  Triple Crowners , Ice Milers , and swimmers who have set records and pioneered swims gathered in the warm desert of Arizona to compete in the 4-day, 4-lake SCAR stage swim . The event consists of four lake crossings, from dam to dam in Saguaro Lake , Canyon Lake , Apache Lake , and finally a night swim in Roosevelt Lake .  The four lakes were created through a series of dams that created the reservoirs along the Salt River  that flows through the State of Arizona. Nicholas wrote on the SCAR Facebook page , “ If we could dial in a perfect day at Saguaro, this was it. From water temp to air temp to low wind – it was good day to be at S.  Michael Rice  [shown below] proving to be
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Getting Drenched with Zallevo at SCAR

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  Melissa Housmyer , a Zallevo Brand Representative and SCAR swimmer, is a sponsor this week's SCAR 2023 event. Housmyer believes Zallevo's Drench is the best nutrition available, " Drench is the optimal mineral hydration geared for performance, energy, and cellular hydration ." Kjersti Coté , Director of Zallevo Labs, explains above. The brand name, Zallevo , is derived from the Latin words "Allevo" and "Zenith" which have a combined meaning of: * The time in one’s life of greatest power and success. * To elevate, to rise up, to uplift and enhance. * To elevate people to their highest potential. For more information, visit here .
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Eric Brown and Emma Finlin Win the Canadian Open Water Swimming World Championship Trials

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Swimming Canada reported that Eric Brown and Emma Finlin won the Canadian Open Water Swimming Trials that were held on Grand Cayman in the warm waters of the Cayman Islands. Brown, representing Pointe-Claire Swim Club, won the men’s 10 km race at Governors Beach, upsetting a former World Championship medalist Eric Hedlin . Finlin won the women’s race with Abby Dunford finishing second. The top two males and females earned spots to represent Canada at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships to be held in Fukuoka, Japan. Third-place finishers Benjamin Cote and Bailey O'Regan also earned trips to the World Championships to compete in the 5 km event. Brown, who had already earned a spot on the Canadian national pool team, sprinted the last 700 meters to edge Hedlin by 2.5 seconds in 1 hour 55 minutes 24.7 seconds. “ At the end, I know I also have the speed so I could just come home. It kind of all went to plan ,” said Brown, the 400m, 800m and 1500m champion at the recent Cana
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