Lynne Cox who has written this book and a few others about her swimming career, turns the microscope on herself when her body seems to let her down. As her heart starts to beat with AFIB and she seems to lose her abilities as an athlete, Lynne examines her reactions and wit the help of her friends is able to recapture and start building her swimming abilities again.
Also interesting that she is being studied to see how she adapts her body to swimming in frigid temperatures, when she participates in scientific testing that watches how her body reacts to extreme cold water. She has set records for speed and distance when swimming the English Channel, the Cook Strait and Beagle Channel between Argentina and Chile, helping to promote peaceful relations between the two countries.
It is interesting to read also because growing up in my family there were many distance swimmers and also all my cousins swam on swim teams. I always thought it was a family gene.
Fascinating to read how Lynne feels when she is in the water and what it means to her in relation to feeling alive.
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