4 Hours, 6 Months

By SwimSwam Contributors on SwimSwam
Courtesy: Mark Helman
Last Saturday I swam 10 kilometers across Newfound Lake in Bristol, New Hampshire.
The swim was part of Swim with a Mission, an organization that supports veterans and their families. Each swimmer gets a bracelet with the name of a fallen service member. Mine was Army PFC Clinton Springer II, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 at the age of 21.
I finished in 3 hours, 51 minutes.
The swim itself lasted less than four hours.
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