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A Story About Long Distance Swimmer Florence Chadwick | by Nick ...

In 1952, a woman named Florence Chadwick decided to attempt the 26-mile swim between the California coastline and Catalina Island.

The True Story Behind Diana Nyad's Incredible Swim | TIME

At the age of 60, she decided to complete the feat she wasn't able to when she was 28—swim the more than 100 miles from Cuba to Florida without ...

marathon swimming | Oregon Lake Bagging

We rounded the top of Mission Peninsula after close to ten hours of swimming. The crew asked me to guide them through the shallow waters, so I swam a few yards ...

How far could an average person swim if their life depended on it?

I grew up with the origin story about why my grandfather thought it was practical have an Olympic sized swimming pool in the backyard. My ...

SHARK! - Marathon Swimmers Forum

This one was especially unusual. You don't usually have shark fishing and swimming together. There [have been] a few attacks where sharks [have ...

Want to be more resilient? Learn from this woman who swims non ...

Welcome to Euronews Travel's Women Beyond Borders, the series which brings you real life accounts from women around the world who are living ...

Reflections on The Four Way - Sarah Thomas

After 14 hours of swimming, I touched a rock in the dark of night to finish the swim. As Ryan and Phil hauled me back into the rib support boat, ...

The Sri Chinmoy 26 km Marathon Swim: Lake Zurich

Arriving at the Seebadi, we found muesli and cake, coffee and tea, and 100 swimmers and supporters stretching and milling around. We connected ...

English Channel Swim - A Long Swim | Donate to ALS Research

Preparing for the English Channel with swims all over the country for two years prior really made this endeavor a team project for my family who accompanied me ...

If I go in like a Cranky Sea Lion, I Come out like a Smiling Dolphin

By exploring instead the 'shifted sensorium' of marathon swimming, and examples of the autotelic pleasures of swimming, this paper argues that training changes ...

Vicki Keith's Marathon Swim Story - YouTube

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Swimming 10k: a celebration of my body. | Super You

This is the story of how I re-found my joy of swimming. And how that joy led me to swim my very first marathon (10k swim).

Vicki Keith – Beside The Boat | Ultra Marathon Swimming Stories

I curled up into a ball on the bunk of the boat, and started questioning my whole existence as a marathon swimmer. I wallowed in self-pity and ...

Shannon Keegan on LinkedIn: Check out the latest episode of ...

Check out the latest episode of Marathon Swim Stories with Outdoor Swimmer founder and publisher, Simon Griffiths . Amid Simon's story we ...

Marathon swimmer: an interview with the first man to swim the length ...

Martin Strel: You are right, the Amazon River is not the environment for a human to swim. It is full of a wonderful biodiversity—we have to ...

110 miles, 53 hours: Questions for Diana Nyad - Page 11

In the Cook swim, I don't believe they call the swim on first shark sighting, but suspect there is a time when the pilot/observer may determine ...

The North Channel - Sarah Thomas

And then we started chatting and treading water, marinating, if you will. We gently floated back to the slip, laughing and talking for the last ...

I am the world record swimmer Diana Nyad, ask me anything! - Reddit

As for the critics, shortly after the swim last labor day there were some legitimate people from the legitimate marathon swimming community who ...

10# How To Plan A Swimming Expedition - "Learn From The Best"

4 TIMES. 2 weeks ago Sarah Thomas changed the concept of what is possible in open water swimming expeditions with a monstrous world-first 4-way ...