Tag: swimming
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Robert Moses, Swimming
“Almost every day, sometimes twice a day, no matter how busy he was, Moses would swim. He preferred the ocean; he left time for a swim whenever he was over on Jones Beach; as soon as the causeway was completed, even before it was open to the public, he drove across it to swim in…
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Review: Diana Nyad’s Find a Way
Find a Way Diana Nyad Diana Nyad’s moving memoir of her life as a woman, a lesbian, a world record holding endurance swimmer, and a survivor of child sexual abuse. The book was significantly better than I expected. I figured I’d be reading about Nyad’s legendary marathon swim around Manhattan and her decades long quest…
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On My Changing Relationship to the Goddamn Pool
If you know me in real life, or pay incredibly close attention to this website, you might know that when I was young, I swam competitively. I was never particularly good (I have never been particularly good at any physical endeavor) but I did it — a lot. There were years when my summers consisted…
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Michael Phelps, the drudgery of swimming, and me.
I swam competitively from elementary school through high school and I can say with some authority that swim practice is unspeakable boring. Racing can be fun, but training is just the worst. It isn’t like true team sports, where you can shoot the shit with your teammates on the field, and it isn’t like running,…
Milo and the Calf 