Page 20 - 4805 Laclede IH36_AL

FEATURE

You are in fantastic
© Ranier Hosch shape. What type of

diet do you follow?
Training for Cuba
was an extreme en-
terprise. That is not
eating as normal, that
is fueling for as many
as 17 hours a day of
training. Some days
I was eating as many
as 12,000, 14,000
calories. When I am
not training, I try to
just eat what my body
needs. Not that I
don’t sit down and
eat the occasional ice
cream cone, but I am
not going to eat slabs
of pizza, that is just
not going to digest
Find a Way to right and give me very
little fuel. So I just eat
Dream and Achieve what would make ab-
solute common sense
Endurance Swimmer if you paid attention.
Diana Nyad Shares Life Experience Does age make a

difference to you?
By Patricia Danflous What is old? Does
it mean that you can’t
Some call her crazy. Some say passionate. get up out of your
Others describe her as a goal-oriented, driven survivor. seat easily? Can you

It’s “good friend” to those who know her well. run down the street
and catch a bus? I
t 66, Di- Nyad is the super, was her fifth attempt do those things at the
ana Nyad first-ever athlete to for a dream that began level of a bad ass. I
graciously swim non-stop from at the age of 28. can look in a mirror
Aaccepts such Havana, Cuba, to Key Not long after a and certainly see that
defining adjectives and West, Florida. In 2013 two-month tour pro- I have lines on the
the dozens of others she completed the moting Find A Way, face and breasts that
linked to her name over 53-hour swim through an intimate memoir, are hanging a little
the years. She’s earned more than 110 miles of the super-fit Nyad took lower than they used
them, along with a place jellyfish and shark-in- time to talk to Active to. I am aging, but I
in history. fested Gulf waters. It Living. don’t feel any of the

13
Summer 2018