Stories from the Water

Send us Fan Mail To read more about Janine and our other guests, visit the brand new http://marathonswimstories.com/ Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@intrepidwater.com Marathon Swim Stories is produced by Katee Meese: https://www.kateemeese.com/ Stay in touch by joining our email list at http://intrepidwater.com J...

Send us Fan Mail To read more about Steven and our other guests, visit the brand new http://marathonswimstories.com/ Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@intrepidwater.com Marathon Swim Stories is produced by Katee Meese: https://www.kateemeese.com/ Stay in touch by joining our email list at http://intrepidwater.com J...

Send us Fan Mail To read more about Dina and our other guests, visit the brand new http://marathonswimstories.com/ Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@intrepidwater.com Marathon Swim Stories is produced by Katee Meese: https://www.kateemeese.com/ Stay in touch by joining our email list at http://intrepidwater.com Joi...

Send us Fan Mail To read more about Kim and our other guests, visit the brand new http://marathonswimstories.com/  Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@intrepidwater.com Marathon Swim Stories is produced by Katee Meese: https://www.kateemeese.com/ Stay in touch by joining our email list at http://intrepidwater.com Joi...

Send us Fan Mail Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@intrepidwater.com Marathon Swim Stories is produced by Katee Meese: https://www.kateemeese.com/ Stay in touch by joining our email list at http://intrepidwater.com Join a supportive group of limit pushers at The Marathon Swimming Collective Music credit: Epic Inspi...

Send us Fan Mail Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@intrepidwater.com Marathon Swim Stories is produced by Katee Meese: https://www.kateemeese.com/ Stay in touch by joining our email list at http://intrepidwater.com Join a supportive group of limit pushers at The Marathon Swimming Collective Music credit: Epic Inspi...

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy the first in a series of deep dive editions of Marathon Swim Stories with Stephen Rouch and the team that supported him for his 50 mile double crossing of Lake Memphremagog: Christopher Graefe, Jamie Ann Rennick, Mary Stella, Jimmy Wu, and Stephen Rouche Sr. Questions, comments, feedback, or if you'd like to be a guest on Marathon Swim Stories, email me! mailto:shannon@...

Send us Fan Mail In his own words: Since searching Google for 'kayaking events' in 2011, I've been kayaking for swimmers first associated with IROC and now Kingdom Swims. So far, I’ve supported swimmers for nine, 10 or 15 mile Kingdom swimmers, seven Search for Memphre, multiple Swim the Kingdom, as well as Manhattan and Finger Lakes swimmers. In my other life, I've been a musi...

Send us Fan Mail Neil Agius, 32, has been swimming competitively for the past 22 years. He took it so seriously that he found himself representing Malta on the Olympic team in Athens 2004. Neil currently holds the record for the Malta-Gozo-Malta swim. That’s only the official record, recorded. His humble persona has kept him out of the spotlight for other potential records.   His career started fr...

Send us Fan Mail After my interview today with the esteemed, Ned Denison, I realized that I forgot to ask a few questions. One of my favorites, who's inspired Ned. He sent me a list almost as long as his swimming resume. And why does he keep going? Ned's a goal setter. "It gets me out of bed in the morning, and I sleep better," he says. And it seems that if you run out of known...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard of Kingdom Swim? Imagine a blissful summer day in late July in the far reaches of the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The weekend kicks off with a swimmer and pet parade and a pasta feed. There's a 1 mile swim. When you're ready you can go a little further out into the lake for a 3 miles swim, or check off your first marathon with a 6 mile swim! Jump up to 1...

Send us Fan Mail Today's guest has been marathon swimming for the last 4 decades! I was fortunate to run into Suzanne Heim during one of my online events. Can you believe that she jumped on What is marathon swimming q&a call - just to connect? It was fun to collaborate and point aspiring marathon swimmers in the right direction. As you can imagine, she has more than a few stories to tell,...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard of the Swim Cube? Located a few hours outside of London in Brixworth County Park, Swim Cube opened for swim coaching and analysis in 2018. Like myself, Head Coach Stuart Hacker advocates for taking the first step to improving your stroke by seeing yourself swim. It's easy to envision yourself swimming perfectly, but to actually make change, you need to connect...

Send us Fan Mail Find out what to look forward to in Season 2 and vote Marathon Swim Stories for World of Open Water Swimming Offering of the Year! https://openwaterswimming.com/contestants/marathon-swim-stories/ Thank you so much for being part of my journey, for listening, watching, or joining Marathon Swim Stories , and thank you to each and everyone of you who have shared your story so far. St...

Send us Fan Mail It's hard to believe that it was just three years ago, at 50, that a friend convinced Cheryl to try a sprint triathlon. Having not swam since high school and with her wetsuit on backwards, she tackled the 300m in the water. And while the running particularly, and cycling, didn't stick, she keeps tackling one challenge after another in the water. It gave me goosebumps whe...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Marathon Swim Stories! I'm Shannon Keegan, swim coach at Intrepid Water.com .  Are you ready to swim more efficently? Send me footage of you swimming and I'll analyze it for free! shannon@intrepidwater.com  After several months of being bed ridden and in a wheelchair, Kelley doesn't take her ability to physically move for granted! Naturally, she returned...

Send us Fan Mail I've been intending to do this recording since I started Marathon Swim Stories back in April! And here it is, just a few weeks before the new year... I'm about to wrap up Season 1 after nearly 70 stories of marathon swimmers around the globe! What a journey. Thank you for being part of it! In this episode I describe how Marathon Swim Stories started, and why I purposely...

Send us Fan Mail I'm so excited for you to meet my guest today! I met Alyssa a couple years ago when I sent out a survey searching for swimmers who wanted to push distance in the water, but needed some support and guidance. She jumped at the opportunity to partake in my Quickstart for Marathon Swimming program with a handful of aspirants. It was so fun to hear Alyssa talk about how the course...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been listening to Marathon Swim Stories for awhile, you’re familiar with my frequent refrain, "I love that". At times, I wish I had a more interesting response, but it's true! I just love it - all of it! Like my guest today, Amy Gubser, I'm in love with open water and marathon swimming. And I love every marathon swim story. It's the one hour...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is fellow Oregonian Sue Phillips. While Sue assured me that her story was not that interesting, she kept coming up with stories… I fondly remember playing leap frog with her in Lake Massawippi last year, but that was just the beginning… she's lost her kayaker around Lido Key, ridden the waves in the Chesapeake, and swam the width in Tahoe during a pandemic. Eve...

Send us Fan Mail Today I spoke with the first woman to swim around the island of Bermuda, Lori King. Upon rediscovering her love of swimming later is life, Lori tried to politely decline an invitation to swim in the open water, strongly preferring the pool. Needless to say, she eventually found her rhythm and got over her fears. There's quite a bit of mom chat in this episode. About how hard...

Send us Fan Mail My guest today started her competitive swimming career in 1967, and it continues to this day. In 2016, on the 41st anniversary of her first English Channel crossing, she completed an English Channel 2 way. Sal Minty-Gravett's Swimming CV is 5 pages long. We barely scratched the surface today, but be sure to stick around to the end for the eventful bits of a few of her swims!...

Send us Fan Mail Where land meets water, an invitation lingers—not just between elements, but between versions of ourselves. In this trailer episode, we hear from three swimmers who’ve accepted that invitation: Sylvia Lacock, Naji Ali, and Jessi Harewicz. Each enters the water not just to swim, but to ask: Who am I when I let go of the shore? Stories from the Water is a series about transformation...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode I spoke with Triple Crown and California Triple Crown swimmer Robin Rose. A mom of three, Robin reminds us how we don't know what we're capable of until we get out there and do it. In her own words: Robin rose is a marathon swimmer . She always been aware of words and the power they carry . The words of a fellow swimmer encouraging Robin to swim a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I spoke with Diane McManus just before her 70th birthday. While she conquered her fears of deep water and learned to swim as a child, she didn't spend much time in the pool until a running injury forced her to take a break from land sports in her 50's. Then, out of curiosity, she signed up for her first open water mile.   Then pushed from 1 to 3… to 5 to...