Tuesday, January 09, 2007

This is Lynn Cox
If you've never heard of Lynn Cox check her out. This woman is one of the great athletes of our generation. Lynn Cox can maintain a stable body temperature in 44 degree water...and swims in water with below zero amongst the icebergs. I recently read her book Swimming to Antarctica. Honestly she is a bit of a nut...she started swimming long distances in the 'normal' places...the Catalina Island Channel, the English Channel...since then she has been swimming in all the craziest places...Cook Strait, Straits of Magellan, Skagerrak, around Cape Point, the Bering Strait, a mile in Antarctica, among other places. I haven't been to a real swim work out in over 10 years...but now I want to go back...I'm never going to swim a great distance like Lynn but knowing that someone can do what she has done inspires me to get back in the pool. I'll let you know how it goes.

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