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• Corriendo la Maratón de Chicago con Susan

  By mauprieto on October 18, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  For an English version, click here. Antonio Argüelles, buen amigo nuestro, nadador de Swim4Good, y con dos triples coronas, nos cuenta de sus nuevo reto.  Como nos tiene acostumbrado, su nuevo reto está al alcance de muy pocos; sólo 6… Read More ›

• Crossing Cancer (Chapter 3)

  By Soozmoody on October 3, 2014 • ( 20 )

  

  From the minute someone hears “you have breast cancer,” she undergoes a series of tests to decide what’s next. They biopsy the cancer to see what kind it is, they investigate how far it’s spread by MRIs of the specific area…. Read More ›

• English Channel Swim – Swim4Good S4S

  By mauprieto on September 19, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  On September 1, Swim4Good Swimmers Guillermo Sagnier, Alberto Compte and I swam across the English Channel in 12 hours 8 minutes in a 3 swimmer relay covering a distance of 50.3km at a water temperature of around 17C (62.6F).  Big thanks to… Read More ›

• Crossing Cancer (Chapter 2)

  By Soozmoody on September 17, 2014 • ( 24 )

  

  Yesterday marks an end to something.  In just three weeks, the following events happened: I found a lump, was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer that has spread to my nodes and started chemotherapy today. Of course, it’s more complicated than… Read More ›

• Crossing Cancer (Chapter 1)

  By Soozmoody on September 1, 2014 • ( 27 )

  

  It’s odd to be writing about cancer in a blog I co-founded about swimming crazy distances to raise money to fight illiteracy. This past wednesday when the doctor told me that the lump I found in the shower two days before was… Read More ›

• Mark’s Strait of Gibraltar swim

  By mauprieto on June 10, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Swim4Good swimmer Mark Drendel writes about his May 23rd swim and Em provides some color commentary.   Mark: During the weeks leading up to the swim I felt good.  Had reached my 100km goal in April, mostly swum in the… Read More ›

• A swimmer’s account of Cortez

  By Soozmoody on June 7, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  On June 3rd, five swimmers and I tried to swim 100 miles across the Sea of Cortez — the fifth try in history. The morning of the swim the sea was a flat, turquoise lake and we felt lucky and… Read More ›

• Not this time

  By mauprieto on June 6, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  We’re back on land after swimming for 22 hours and making it almost half way through the Sea of Cortez before high waves and strong winds cut our attempt short.  It’s ringing in our mind Paul Lundgren’s conclusion after his own… Read More ›

• Ultraswim Formentera – Ibiza (34 km)

  By mauprieto on May 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Santi Callis nos relata su heroica travesía del domingo 25 de junio Tirarse al agua a las 7h AM en Formentera y tratar de llegar a Ibiza ya nos parecía complicado. Pero hacerlo con olas de hasta dos metros de… Read More ›

• Paul Lundgren’s first experience with the Sea of Cortez

  By mauprieto on May 27, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  In one week (June 3rd), the six swimmer team formed by Swim4Good and Night Train Swimmers will start near La Paz (Baja California, Mexico), in a continuous relay swim across the Sea of Cortez, a distance of approximately 163 km…. Read More ›

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