Showing posts with label Kim Linehan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kim Linehan. Show all posts

Sunday, 13 December 2015

JUST GET IN THE WATER

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - Richard L. Evans

The first electric light was so dim that a candle was needed to see its socket. One of the first steamboats took 32 hours to chug its way from New York to Albany, a distance of 150 miles. Wilbur and Orville Wright's first airplane flight lasted only 12 seconds. And the first automobiles traveled 2 to 4 miles per hour and broke down often. Carriages would pass them with their passengers shouting, "Get a horse!"
Kim Linehan holds the world record in the Women's 1500-meter freestyle. According to her coach, Paul Bergen, the 18-year-old is the leading amateur woman distance swimmer in the world. Kim does endless exercises and swims 7 to 12 miles a day. The hardest part of her regimen? "Getting in the water," she says.

The best way to start, is to start from the start. I like Nike, they say, "Just Do It." I'm sure we wouldn't have heard Kim Linehan, or she wouldn't be the world's record holder for the

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