How to swim for 25 hours
Pizzas and a healthy heart are all that you need to swim the seven seas or the five Great lakes. Paula Stephanson (30) should know because she has done it. She became the second person to swim all the five Great lakes – she swam 56 kilometers of Lake Michigan in 25 hours and 38 minutes. With 20 years training in swimming behind her and an appetite for pastas and pizzas, she has achieved the difficult task of swimming the five Great lakes. She began swimming when she was only 10 and has justified the age-old saying ‘where there is a will, there is a way’.
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- Submitted By: prabirghose | 2 months agoPaula Stephanson's five amazing Great Lakes swims are fuelled by plain pasta, rewarded by Hawaiian pizza, and enabled by 20 years of swim training. No exotic supplements, expensive protein shakes, or secret workouts - just tons of mileage, a common-...
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- Blog Source: communities.canada.comPaula Stephanson's five amazing Great Lakes swims are fuelled by plain pasta, rewarded by Hawaiian pizza, and enabled by 20 years of swim training — some of it at the Walter Baker Sports Centre in Barrhaven. Alison Korn ...
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yes, the report gives it in details ... she actually swam in the lakes several times to acclamatise her body to the extreme conditions ...
'.... With her mom chugging nearby in an 18-foot motor boat for safety, Stephanson swam in that Great Lake four times a week for two months. Every swim was two or three hours, and up to 10 kilometres. In mid-July, about a month before the big crossing, she did a six-hour test swim....'
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=1976828
'.... With her mom chugging nearby in an 18-foot motor boat for safety, Stephanson swam in that Great Lake four times a week for two months. Every swim was two or three hours, and up to 10 kilometres. In mid-July, about a month before the big crossing, she did a six-hour test swim....'
http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=1976828
Thats Amazing :) I cant just imagine that :) Thumbs up for Paula Stephanson.
thanks moa and jazibsaeed - yes - the lady deserves credit ... determnation is the key ... she has plenty of it alongwith guts ...
training is no doubt an important factor ... but the pastas and pizzas have also played an equally crucial role by providing the necessary energy ...
Wow! That's amazing! I believe she made lots of efforts on her training..
yes, and it paid rich dividends ...
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