Tag: endurance athlete story
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The Birthday Ride That Broke His Bones RAAM — Race Across America, 1994 Some people celebrate birthdays with cake. Ted Epstein chose 3,000 miles of pain. In 1994, at 59 years old, Ted lined up for one of the most brutal endurance events on Earth — the Race Across America, known simply as RAAM. Ultra…
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Swimming the Bering Strait — A Birthday Into History July 19, 1993 For his 58th birthday, Ted didn’t ask for a cake.He asked for the coldest, loneliest stretch of water on Earth. He wanted to swim the Bering Strait. Just a few years earlier, legendary cold-water swimmer Lynne Cox had stunned the world by crossing…
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Swimming — The Sport Ted Refused to Let Beat Him Ted Epstein had striking light blue eyes — the kind most people never noticed because they were usually hidden behind thick glasses. And those glasses were exactly why swimming terrified him. But triathlons don’t care about fears. When Ted signed up for a quarter triathlon…