In today’s episode, Ken Immer talks us through his transformation into an open water marathon swimmer. I met Ken while recording one of Jia’s Journey episodes as he had previously kayaked for Jia on one of her swims. In further conversation with Ken, I found that in addition to kayaking, he swims marathons, so I jumped at the opportunity to […]
In today’s episode I spoke with Diego Lopez. He grew in the Canary Islands, where swimming is part of the culture. Diego shares with us how the Global Swimmer project was born. Endeavoring to swim a major event on each of the seven continents in a single year presents many challenges – but maybe not the ones that you think! […]
When Ryan Leong woke up intubated in the ICU following open heart surgery he made a promise to challenge himself both physically and mentally every single day after that so that he could stay as far as away from that hospital bed as possible. Now Ryan calls himself a “recovering triathlete” and blames his “poor friend choices” and this internal […]