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Lighthouse Swim – Aug. 30, 2026
As I write this, I’m still recovering from swimming across the Hudson River. I had done this event in 2023 – a 2.2-mile swim “as the crow flies” (but the crow doesn’t swim… a notoriously smart bird). To start on the Nyack side, 98 of us piled into buses in Sleepy Hollow to cross the…
This was the shortest multi-sport race I’ve done: 2.2 mile run, 12 mile bike, 2.2 mile run. As a French ultra-marathoner friend once wrote, “The shorter distances. They are more violent.” So the strategy (other than to get out of bed at 5:15, not crazy early in the day but late enough in the…
This was the shortest multi-sport race I’ve done: 2.2 mile run, 12 mile bike, 2.2 mile run. As a French ultra-marathoner friend once wrote, “The shorter distances. They are more violent.” So the strategy (other than to get out of bed at 5:15, not crazy early in the day but late enough in the…