Nyad finally completes swim from Cuba to Florida on her fifth try

[The Reckoning]

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/02/wo...rebar_facebook


She's 64 now. crazy.


"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

That's the message from 64-year-old endurance swimmer Diana Nyad, who achieved her lifelong goal of conquering the Straits of Florida.

On Monday, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective cage, willing her way to a Key West beach just before 2 p.m. ET, nearly 53 hours after jumping into the ocean in Havana for her fifth try in 35 years."

[TE]

Pretty inspiring tbh.

[benefactor]

I'm sure more than a few Cubans have made it, but props to her as it's still an impressive feat.

[mrsmaalox]

That's pretty amazing, she is in Lance Armstrong-like condition. My cousin did an Ironman event recently and had to swim in the ocean. He said that was definitely the hardest, not to mention scariest, thing he's ever done.

[FkLA]

That's pretty amazing, she is in Lance Armstrong-like condition. My cousin did an Ironman event recently and had to swim in the ocean. He said that was definitely the hardest, not to mention scariest, thing he's ever done.

Lance is a cheat. Why the would you compare this tough old lady to him ?

[mrsmaalox]

Lance is a cheat. Why the would you compare this tough old lady to him ?

Yea you're right but I didn't mean to compare their ethics----I just meant that for so many years LA has been touted as a physical phenom and that's what this lady is.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Pretty inspiring tbh.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again."

yup, yup, yup

On Monday, she became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective cage, willing her way to a Key West beach just before 2 p.m. ET, nearly 53 hours after jumping into the ocean in Havana for her fifth try in 35 years."

Wow....

[symple19]

would have been much more interesting had she been eaten by a shark or drowned, tbh