Word: swimming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes a face will swim up out of the gloom, pale, frightening and familiar--a star--and you are turned to stone before your own image. The jolt of recognition; it is not for him, but for that self of yours that he has incarnated, that large other you that has blazed up so often in the dark before your tiny, fascinated gaze. But most of the faces in the gloom are anonymous and alike in their intensity. Even the ones who seem idle, the dozens who, as you draw closer to the center of activity, you notice lounging...
...Swimming at Southern Connecticut State College in New Haven, Mary Beth Thomaselli set a new Eastern Collegiate record in the 100-yd. breaststroke with a time of 1:12.36 in the trials, but was disqualified in the final heat on an illegal touch. However, she finished third in the 50-yd. breaststroke and will certainly swim in the nationals, according to coach Alice McCabe...
...somebody asked me why I do it. I wouldn't really be able to say. I like being in shape, like right now I can swim 1650 yards at 85 per cent effort without getting tired...
...only a minimal amount of work, the long distance man must train long hours to strengthen heart and lungs and build endurance. According to Gambril the distance man must work from four to eight years for 10 or 11 months a year to reach peak endurance. He must swim between 1200 and 1500 miles a year, or about 35-50 miles a week...
Asked why be endures long-distance training. Baughman pointed to his quite normal bicep and explained. "I have no choice but to swim long distances. I don't have any power...