Swimming is more than just staring at a black line on the bottom of the pool. While that is a good part of what we do, there’s a lot more fun that happens as well. As popular challenges and trends ...

Did you swim a lot this August? My own summer was chaotic enough that I’ll admit I mostly stuck to my familiar gym routine, but I hope a bunch of you took advantage of the opportunity to swim some ...

Over the past few years there has been an explosion of social media trends in the swimming community. Swimmers of all ages flock to Instagram, Facebook or Twitter to post videos of themselves ...

If you need to catch up on your swimming because you have been away from pool access or you have progressed to a level where you want to challenge yourself with a 5,000-meter swim workout, here is a ...

CASCADE LOCKS, Ore. — Early Labor Day morning, Lynn Rasmussen and her group — The Faux Fur-sters — shed their warm, namesake coats to reveal wetsuits. They approached the open door of Columbia Gorge ...

If your awareness of the Erie Canal stops at the folk song you learned in grade school, then you, too, will be surprised to know this: The canal is not a poker-straight channel. No. It meanders ...

Local fashion designer Brik Allen didn't need a life preserver to survive the "Sink or Swim" challenge on last week's "Project Runway." Allen was safe in the challenge that had the 13 remaining ...

On September 29, Ed Horne accomplished the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming. He swam the "20 Bridges" challenge: a 28.5-mile loop that starts and ends at Battery Park in NYC. He completed the ...

Kyle Ploehn, an amputee, calls the rest of the competitors he is swimming against, the 'ABs' ― the able-bodied swimmers. Those 'ABs' call Kyle Ploehn an inspiration. While a large group of competitors ...

A 57-year-old woman has completed a 93-mile swimming challenge to raise funds for charity. Shân Barcroft from Peterborough set herself the challenge and completed it over three months to raise nearly ...