At one point, after a mile-and-a-half swim, she had to be pulled barely conscious from Windermere.
Breathless with anger, I half-swam, half hopped up behind him, and hooked a foot around his ankle so that he fell face-forward with a smack.
Where one woman, caught on the streets after a panicked attempt to save her car, half-swam and half-walked her way home, singing a psalm for safe passage as the waters lapped against her neck.
Scientists believe that Pacific loggerheads hatch on beaches in Japan, leave those waters when they are not quite an inch and a half long, swim to the West Coast of North America, where they live for an unknown number of years, then try to swim back to Japan when they are about 16 inches long.
That was half the swim team's medal haul four years earlier in Beijing.
She helped me find medicine to help me live a life that would enable me to complete my Must Dos: complete a half marathon, swim freely in the ocean, travel without constraint.
In August , 2002 when he was twenty-three, he competed in the Escape from the Rock Triathlon which included a thirteen-mile bicycle ride, a two-and-a-half-mile run, and a one-and-a-half-mile swim, from the prison island to the mainland.
"I did an Ironman — that's with a two-and-a-half-mile swim, a hundred and twelve miles on the bike, and then a marathon," he said.
A sprint triathlon, the shortest type, typically involves a half-mile swim, a 13-mile bike ride and a 3-mile run.
The entry level is a sprint, which includes a half-mile swim, a 12- to 13-mile bike ride and a 3-mile run.
Everything changed after he entered a sprint triathlon (a half-mile swim, three-mile run and 15-mile bike effort) in 1991.
