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The official facebook group of Beyond The Breakers open water swim summit! Save The Date: Saturday November 14th, 2026
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10/28/2026

Dan has been a fixture at BTB the past 2 years and this year he is bringing a unique talk to help swimmers no matter the ability or age!

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10/27/2026

We have a WINNER!

10/27/2026

Peter Plavec was asked who needs to be at Beyond The Breakers this November, and he didn't hesitate. The short answer is Everybody!

We love that answer, because it's exactly why we started this. Peter says all the open water swimmers should be there, because everybody can find a speaker, or more than one, who has something very important to offer.

Then he said the part that gets us fired up. Even the great speakers who presented last year walked away learning something, and they heard plenty of interesting new tidbits. People at the top of this sport walked into our summit and still left knowing something they didn't walk in with.

It doesn't matter if you're getting in the water for the first time or you've got a long list of crossings behind you. Peter's words were that it doesn't matter what level you are, you should be there!

We want you in that building with us on November 14 and 15, standing next to the people who get it. We're less than three weeks out, and the link is below where you grab a ticket.

10/26/2026

When Sarah Thomas- Open Water Marathon Swimmer tells you to be somewhere, you should probably listen, and on a Monday morning you could probably use something to look forward to.

Sarah explained why Beyond The Breakers is an and one major reason is YOU, the attendees. You will definitely learn something, and that being there in person with a whole bunch of different swimmers, triathletes, coaches, and crew is an opportunity everyone should take advantage of.

Sarah is the first person to complete a four-way crossing of the English Channel, and she holds the world record for the longest unassisted, non-wetsuit swim in current-neutral conditions, 104.6 miles through Lake Champlain over 67 hours. She knows what it takes to keep going when everything in your body says to stop, and she knows what's worth showing up for.

November 14 and 15 is coming, and it's a full weekend with your people, in the same building, all of you having heard the same calling. The link in bio is where you grab a ticket and give yourself something to count down to.

10/25/2026

Just type "BtB" in subject line at www.GoMOWSA.org/contact for a chance to win!

10/25/2026

Elaine Howley says the best part of this summit is the moments nobody planned.

This year she's leading a safety panel called Swimmers In = Swimmers Out presented by Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association, and she's in the last session of the summit, the First Ladies Club.

She's been at Beyond The Breakers for two years now and says it's wildly fun to have that many swimmers in one place, learning real things while the whole event buzzes.

Last year she finished her talk and a swimmer walked up and asked her to sign a book where she collects signatures from open water swimmers she looks up to.
Elaine was flattered, because even the people on stage get to meet someone they've admired.

That's what happens when swimmers, triathletes, coaches, and crew who all heard the same calling end up under one roof. We're three weeks out from November 14 and 15, and the link in bio is where you grab a ticket and be part of it.

10/24/2026

Jennifer Brunelli from Sports RDpro, LLC, says anybody who wants to be better than they were yesterday belongs in the room for her nutrition presentation at Beyond The Breakers!

She's a registered dietitian who spent 7+ seasons as the sports dietitian for the Carolina Panthers. She was a seven-time All-American swimmer at University of South Carolina before that. At BTB she's digging into fueling during the swim, why it's way more individual than most of us realize and how you can create a better plan.

She talks about how many tools are out there that most of us have never been exposed to, and she wants to hand over a lot of knowledge on fueling in the middle of the effort, including how different kinds of sugar can affect your gut. That makes it a room for the swimmer who's been guessing at fueling needs, the triathlete still working out what sits right during a long day, the crew in the boat handing up the bottle, and the coach trying to dial in an athlete's plan.

If you want to be a little better than you were yesterday, this one is worth being in the room for.

Tickets are at swimbeyondthebreakers.com

Sports RDpro, LLC

10/23/2026

We know Dan Daly came up in the pool as a collegiate All-American, and we know the marathon swimmers he coaches today.

What most people haven't heard is what pulled him into open water in the first place.

Around 2010 or 2011, his uncle asked him and his wife if they wanted to do an English Channel relay, and they said yes right away. Then the reality set in, because neither of them really understood the commitment it would take or how cold that water was going to be.

Dan ended up coaching his uncle for that relay, and his uncle went on to earn the Triple Crown. Along the way they swam a bunch of shorter events, including Dan's first 10K in the Hudson River, a current assisted swim of about 90 minutes, and he kept getting pulled further into helping people chase swims that scared them.

I love this story because it's how most of us got here, a quick yes followed by a lot of work nobody saw. Dan is covering the necessary topic of Speed and Power at the summit and then showing you how to apply it at the clinic on November 15, and tickets are at the link in bio.

10/22/2026

"These people are studs, man."
Rowdy Gaines talking about the people attending Beyond The Breakers in a few weeks!

A three-time Olympic gold medalist is coming to Waltham, and what he's most fired up about is you.

He said the joy he already knows he'll feel is looking out at a room of swimmers, triathletes, coaches and crew and thinking wow, I need to inspire these people when they have done so much!

Everyone in that room has had the hard day. The one where it would have been easy to stay home, sit it out, or let someone else do it, and you went out anyway and got it done. That's the grit that has Rowdy inspired to meet you.

November 14 and 15 is three weeks out, and this room belongs to the ones who keep showing up.

Tickets are at the link in bio.

10/21/2026

Huge shout out to the companies that show up for our sport and have partnered with us to bring Beyond The Breakers 2026 together!

We're less than four weeks out from Beyond The Breakers, and these are the ones who backed it.

Thank you for your support Endurance Swimming: Open Water Training, Pacific Open Water Swim Co., dryrobe, THEMAGIC5 , Massachusetts Open Water Swimming Association , SwimTrek Swimming Holidays , TRIHARD , San Diego Open Water Swimming Association , SurfEars , Sports RDpro, LLC and Gulf of Maine Open Water Swimming Association ! You put your name behind a sport that mostly happens in choppy, dark water before sunrise with nobody watching, and the people who live it notice.

The swimmers, crew, coaches and the brands are all going to be there on November 14th talking about a sport we all love for an entire day!

November 14 and 15 in Waltham, MA.

Tickets in the comments!

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Waltham, MA
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