by Bill Plock | Oct 27, 2019 | Community
By Bill Plock If you google “greatest endurance feats,” all kinds of crazy things show up. Things like Jack LaLane pulling 70 row boats swimming with his hands and feat in shackles. Or, Wim Hofs 5:25 marathon running in Finland north of the Arctic Circle...
by Bill Plock | Oct 23, 2019 | Community
Article courtesy of The Guardian There are a handful of numbers that are imbued with meaning. Roger Bannister’s 3:59.4. Usain Bolt’s 9.58. And now Eliud Kipchoge’s 1:59:40. Bill Plock, Sarah Thomas and Rich Soares, upcoming podcast Kipchoge’s extraordinary...
by Bill Plock | Sep 17, 2019 | Community
By Matthew Robinson, CNN London, An American cancer survivor has become the first person to swim across the English Channel four times non-stop.Sarah Thomas, an open water marathon swimmer from Colorado, completed the record-breaking feat at around 6.30am Tuesday...
by Bill Plock | Sep 16, 2019 | Community
By Phil Boucher, People American Sarah Thomas is on the verge of achieving the seemingly impossible: swimming the English Channel four times, non-stop. The Denver, Colorado athlete is midway through the fourth leg of her epic swim — a feat that is itself a record —...
by Bill Plock | Dec 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
“…only three athletes active today have finished ‘current-neutral’ swims of 63 miles or more — all three of them women.” Unnoticed and unfeted, a US swimmer is breaking the sport’s boundaries From Financial Times Last week Sarah Thomas...
by 303cycling | Sep 20, 2017 | Triathlon
By Lisa Ingarfield Sarah Thomas was born to swim. She picked up the sport at age seven and has been swimming pretty much ever since. This past July, she broke her own world record, swimming 104 miles in Lake Champlain, from Rouses Point, New York, to Vermont and back...
by 303cycling | Aug 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
From 9News KUSA – She did it. In 67 hours and 16 minutes, Sarah Thomas, from Conifer, finished a 104-mile swim and broke her own record. Thomas slowly hobbled out of Lake Champlain, which is between New York and Vermont, around 1:30 a.m. local time, and 3:30...