Helping your Neighbors in Need, Canadian Maritimes by Train, Nike Makes shoe parts into Face Masks, Lynne Cox, and Cold Exposure, Hypothermia, Acclimation, Training, Endurance, and Rewarming, Breaking Down Barriers between Countries while Challenging herself. Swimming to Antarctica, Explorer, Roald Amundsen, New Zealand, Russia, Make Eclairs
THURSDAY 5/7
"Your mindset is dictated by those around you. Surround yourself with people who support you." Cold Water Swimmer, Lynne Cox
COMMUNITY SERVICE. Helping others. INSPIRED.
Helping those in Need
“I am your farmer, your nurse, your provider, healer and protector. Bio security is nothing new for me as a hog farmer, keep the pathogens low, the herd is protected and thrives. This is the same theory behind social distancing. I know many are feeling the strain both mentally and financially due to this invisible enemy, but please keep doing what you are doing and stay home, stay away from friends and family until this passes…for those of you who think this isn’t real, or is being blown out of proportion, you’re dead wrong….if you could see what I see, you would change your mind…please do your part to keep me, my family, and our animals safe. My greatest fear isn’t dying from this, it’s giving it to someone I love.”
What do you do that is Special?
How could you use your Unique qualities and situation to help others right now?
FIELD TRIP
CANADIAN MARITIMES, by TRAIN
If you need a dose of warm and fuzzies, spend some time exploring Canadian kindness with writer Colleen Kinder, part of our just-released AFAR May/June 2020 issue.
DESIGN, IMPLEMENT AND MANUFACTURE TURN AROUND
How Nike turned shoe parts into face shields in just two weeks
“One of the first lessons of product design is, don’t talk about things; make them,” says Donaghu. “Then you see their flaws.”
But how would Nike know the flaws in a face shield? The company brings in athletes, and films them with high-speed cameras to tweak shoe design. So Nike looked for the PPE equivalent. “If OHSU is the team . . . who is the athlete? We asked them to bring in a couple of super users of this product,” says Donaghu. “Within a couple hours that morning, we had a small group from OHSU that came to our studio.” And they had prototypes to look at.
What the team ultimately developed was basically a Nike shoe, deconstructed for medical workers. The forehead pad is made from the collared padding found in shoes. The cords are from Nike apparel. And the shield itself? That’s actually the thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) material in a Nike Air sole. But instead of holding an air bubble, it’s flattened and curved around one’s face.
DESIGN, DRAW, and MAKE
Business Plan for developing a product to help people protect themselves from other's coughs, or SPUTUM.
spu·tum
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A shield, and or other Personal Protective Equipment to protect those working in the essential business sector.
1. Come up with your idea to help with an item to protect.
2. Draw the parts, pieces, and how they will fit together.
3. Go to your recycle bin. Find pieces to build your PPE. 4. If you need more parts, look around, something in the "out" pile, near the trash, or the junk drawer.
5. Build your PROTOTYPE.
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Cox is more comfortable in the cold. Always has been. As a chubby 9-year-old girl on her first swim team, in Manchester, N.H., she chose to swim laps outside in hailstorms to avoid practicing indoors with her teammates, including her older brother and younger sister. "I remember one day in June, it was so cold I wouldn't even put my toe in the water," says Cox's brother, David. "I looked out the window, down the 50-meter pool to see our coach standing on the starting block in full rain gear, wearing a parka and holding an umbrella. My sister was the only person in the pool, like it was sunny and 75."
In September 1971, Cox and three others became the first group of teenagers to swim the 27 miles from Seal Beach, just south of Long Beach, to Catalina Island. Well into the swim, Cox was on record pace. "I was way ahead of the others, and our crew on the boat told me I had a chance to break the record." But Cox had agreed to swim with the team and she wanted to finish with the team. She stopped and treaded water. "When two boys caught up with me, I told them we needed to wait for our fourth." But when the boys got cold, Cox sent them ahead. She treaded water again, eventually finishing with her last teammate in 12 hours and 36 minutes. After the race, when the Los Angeles Times interviewed the group, the two boys bragged about beating Cox by 10 minutes. "I was fine with it because I knew I'd kept my commitment," Cox says, characteristically unfazed. "But that was the last time I was going to swim with a team."
Three years later, Cox swam the Catalina Channel alone in just 8 hours, 48 minutes, breaking the men's (8:50, set two years prior by David Cox) and women's (12:18) world records. ESPN
Cox is more comfortable in the cold. Always has been. As a chubby 9-year-old girl on her first swim team, in Manchester, N.H., she chose to swim laps outside in hailstorms to avoid practicing indoors with her teammates, including her older brother and younger sister. "I remember one day in June, it was so cold I wouldn't even put my toe in the water," says Cox's brother, David. "I looked out the window, down the 50-meter pool to see our coach standing on the starting block in full rain gear, wearing a parka and holding an umbrella. My sister was the only person in the pool, like it was sunny and 75."
In September 1971, Cox and three others became the first group of teenagers to swim the 27 miles from Seal Beach, just south of Long Beach, to Catalina Island. Well into the swim, Cox was on record pace. "I was way ahead of the others, and our crew on the boat told me I had a chance to break the record." But Cox had agreed to swim with the team and she wanted to finish with the team. She stopped and treaded water. "When two boys caught up with me, I told them we needed to wait for our fourth." But when the boys got cold, Cox sent them ahead. She treaded water again, eventually finishing with her last teammate in 12 hours and 36 minutes. After the race, when the Los Angeles Times interviewed the group, the two boys bragged about beating Cox by 10 minutes. "I was fine with it because I knew I'd kept my commitment," Cox says, characteristically unfazed. "But that was the last time I was going to swim with a team."
Three years later, Cox swam the Catalina Channel alone in just 8 hours, 48 minutes, breaking the men's (8:50, set two years prior by David Cox) and women's (12:18) world records. ESPN
In her long distance swims, she has swam with sharks, dolphins and whales, while conquering her goals.
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ENLARGE
Cox is here on this dreary March morning in 2007 at the age of 50, attempting the impossible yet again
ENLARGE
Cox's body has been studied extensively. The Navy SEALs have tested her for their own cold-water training purposes.
Michael Muller for ESPNCox knows all of the danger signs because her body has been studied extensively. Navy SEALs have tested her for their own training purposes, and experts at the University of California at Santa Barbara have studied her to better understand the human body's capabilities in cold water. Scientists there put Cox in a swim tank set to 50 degrees and monitored her as she swam for 40 minutes. By the end of the swim, her core temperature had risen to 102 degrees. Only once on a competitive swim has her body temp dropped to a dangerous level -- during a 32-degree Antarctica trek in 2002. She had no feeling in her skin. It took months for the sensation in her fingers and toes to return. When she showered, she had to stick her head in the water to gauge the temperature. Long-term muscle damage was a real possibility for Cox then, as it is now in the waters of Greenland.
.....Out of the water, Cox doesn't look like a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame or the owner of 57 major open-water records.
The irony isn't lost on her: Her physique is her biggest asset -- and the only thing she'd like to change about herself. She doesn't think her middle-aged body is perfect, but, ever the positive thinker, she knows it's perfect for what she does with it. It's what enables her to survive swims in freezing water. ESPN outside the Lines
But Cox didn't fall off her boat. She's doing this -- swimming here, in subfreezing water -- on purpose, tracing the routes forged by her childhood hero, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen
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In her first children’s book, Lynne Cox teams up with Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Brian Floca to bring us this inspiring story of an elephant seal who knew exactly where she belonged.Here is the incredible story of Elizabeth, a real-life elephant seal who made her home in the Avon River in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. When Elizabeth decides to stretch out across a two-lane road, the citizens worry she might get hurt or cause traffic accidents, so a group of volunteers tows her out to sea. But Elizabeth swims all the way back to Christchurch. The volunteers catch her again and again—each time towing her farther, even hundreds of miles away—but, still, Elizabeth finds her way back home. |
In February 1975, Cox became the first woman to swim across Cook Strait between the North and South islands of New Zealand. She completed the treacherous 14-mile strait in a posted time of 12 hours and 2 1/2 minutes.
We can have big dreams, It's about the Ocean that supports those dreams, To flow with the currents along those dreams, To push beyond what we ever think we can do, To Share with others and inspire them so that they can follow their dreams.
EMBRACE YOUR UNIQUE QUALITIES, then get to work to learn more, train more, be more, and contribute to the world in your own special way.
She swam many long distance swims between Countries to break down Barriers.
"I had seen what it took to be the best, and been around people who were the best, which allowed me to see what I had to do to be my best. "
"I had seen what it took to be the best, and been around people who were the best, which allowed me to see what I had to do to be my best. "
Do you have a swimmer in the Family? Are you interested in another Sport? Dream Big. You can do amazing things!
This is an inspirational account of a long distance extreme swimmer who realized as a young person that she excelled in performing in the cold water. As her peers left the outdoor pool in New Hampshire, she looked around and felt right at home in the water and kept on with her workout. This book follows her journey to Long Beach California, and through her endeavors to swim all the long distance cold water challenges she could create for herself. Lynne Cox begins by swimming to Catalina Island, off the California Coast, with four Long Beach team members, then the English Channel with 2 world records there, beating the Men and the Women, Egypt's Nile River with Dissentary and almost succumbing to Hypothermia, to the Bering Straight, Capes around the Southern tips of Argentina and Chile, and South Africa, and to Antarctica.
LYNN FOX,
SWIMMING TO ANTARCTICA 1.22 miles
TedTalk, I had never been to France, and I set off at 15 with my Pilot, and I kept going over "I swam the Channel, in French, Planning, Innovating Water bottles with warm Apple Juice, as there weren't any back then, and sprinting at the end as the tide changes, you have to sprint after 9 hours of swimming, and finally she makes it. Rocks or soft beach, to break the record, she goes for the Rocks.
in French. Vous avez nagé la chaîne!. vs. her practiced French words for arrival, the ones she wanted to say and had practiced while she trained for this amazing Accomplishment at 15 then 17. Arriving in the waters off France, covered in grease, cold, and hoisted into the Dory, and she has broken the Wold record, The men's record by 20 Minutes and the women's by an Hour.
Then she went back to High School, and her next goals and successes.
The Russians Know about Endurance and Cold. 38 degree water through Fog.
How to bridge the gap between these Countries. They elevated her to Cosmonaut Status.
cos·mo·naut
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Lynne Cox, Swims the 7 Seas
Legendary swimmer Lynne Cox shares her incredible story. She broke world records in open water swimming. Her swims across borders have connected cultures and altered the dynamics between countries wrought with tension and conflict. At age 40, she swam in 32 degree water to the shores of Antarctica!!! She is not only an incredible champion swimmer, but also an amazing storyteller and an inspiration.
Her Family Helped her train, 5-10 up to 15 miles a day.
At 15 years old she swam the English Channel.
She Broke the world record at 15. Then she did it again and broke the record again after her record was beat when she was 17.
At 15 years old she swam the English Channel.
She Broke the world record at 15. Then she did it again and broke the record again after her record was beat when she was 17.
She was happy to see Reg Brickle on her guide boat as he had taken the most world breaking English swimmers across, she swam it in 9 hours and 57 minutes and broke the Men's record by 20 minutes, and the Women's Record by an Hour. The tides, currents, weather, and a night start because it’s calmer, are all things she worked into her swim. "It’s like running a marathon and then the tides make it more difficult at the end."
Legend Champion Swimmer, Lynne Cox. Interviewed by, Orion's Method, You Tube
“She swam from California to Catalina at 14 years old, with 2 boys and another girl, 27 miles, It took them 12 hours and 26 minutes.
She decided then she wanted to swim the English Channel, Her family helped her train and with the expertise of her coach Don Gambrel.
Her wish was to bridge gaps between Countries, Cross unbreakable borders, Inspire People to follow their dream and live their life to the fullest. The Triumph of Human Spirit and she broke Open Water Swim Records.”
She decided then she wanted to swim the English Channel, Her family helped her train and with the expertise of her coach Don Gambrel.
Her wish was to bridge gaps between Countries, Cross unbreakable borders, Inspire People to follow their dream and live their life to the fullest. The Triumph of Human Spirit and she broke Open Water Swim Records.”
She really wanted to swim other swims. So she started, and kept going, on to Cookes Straights between The North and South Island of New Zealand, she swam floated backward as the current pushed her for 5 hours in water so rough the boat almost sank on the Way back to the North Island. It took her 12 hours and 2 and a half minutes.
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She talks about Fear and how to plan and overcome. "Fear is a way to protect yourself."
https://youtu.be/y84YqNg1p0U
Lynne's Google Talk above.
57 minutes, but excellent on goals.
What will go right? (Rather than what could go wrong?)
Simple nutrition for Endurance Athletes, Planning and Making your Goals your reality.
Her message is we get one try at Life. Set Goals for your self. It's Your Life and Your Dreams.
Lynne's Google Talk above.
57 minutes, but excellent on goals.
What will go right? (Rather than what could go wrong?)
Simple nutrition for Endurance Athletes, Planning and Making your Goals your reality.
Her message is we get one try at Life. Set Goals for your self. It's Your Life and Your Dreams.
lynnecox.org
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60 Minutes captures Lynne Cox swimming to Antartica.
On the Greenland Swim. For much of her life, Cox has known she is unique. More than even the greatest other athletes, Cox is conscious of her superhuman characteristics. But in Catalina, the Strait of Magellan, the Bering Strait, Antarctica and Greenland, Cox wasn't cheered on by 80,000 fans. When she broke a record, she didn't get a big contract or a guest spot on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." She is self-motivated, self-propelled, which makes her drive more impressive than that of even the most decorated stars. Cox is 56 now, and has been a world-class athlete for decades but without any of the advantages, under circumstances no one else has experienced. Open-water swimming in freezing temperatures has no team structure, no league structure, no financial structure. But Cox knows that she is designed to do something special in the water and that neither extreme cold nor advancing age can slow her down. ESPN
National Geographic, Under the Ice. You will need to link this to your subscription, if you have one, Or look online.
Why?
When would you try to attempt this?
With Who?
What would you accomplish when you had finished your Challenge?
Delicious Global Dishes and Drinks You Can Make at Home. Yum. AFAR
An éclair is an oblong French pastry made with light and airy choux dough, filled with a cream, and topped with flavored icing. AFAR.
FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Many people & places love Eclairs. Make your own, recipe below.
Missing France? Now is the perfect time to try making your own éclairs and pretend you’re dining at Parisian sidewalk cafe.
And so that Saturday, I took a trip to a faraway land: the kitchen. You wouldn’t believe the miles I racked up! I decided to make strawberry preserves, but you know, in a room travel kinda way. I pulled out the cutting board, a hardy beast that a friend made for me years ago. I ran my hand along the oiled surface. I admired the sunlight brightening the counter that’s just long enough for pulling strands of pasta and attempting French éclairs or Australian Lamingtons.
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