Melodee Liegl’s Marathon Swim Story

Have you seen the posts in the open water Facebook groups where people share images from their GPS watch displaying shapes, figures, sometimes letters, some people can spell out entire words in cursive! Mind you, they can’t see what their drawing until they are done with their swim… Well, as far as I’m concerned, Melodee Leigel invented the sport of […]

Stephen Rouch’s Marathon Swim Story

Today we found out more about how Stephen Rouch, who was the subject of my first Deep Dive Marathon Swim Story episode back in January, gained confidence to go for a 50 mile double crossing of Lake Memphremagog in 2019. If you haven’t heard it, be sure to listen to or watch the retelling of Stephen’s big swim! A childhood […]

Mark Spratt’s Marathon Swim Story

Enjoy the replay of Virtual “Swim” Practice with Mark Spratt where we talk about Mark’s huge resume of swims, racing instead of training, when you swear that you’ll never do another marathon swim and then you realize that you’ve done 43! Handling that point that you want to quit, and so much more! In his own word: Swimming has been […]