56 Year Old Mom Swimming Atlantic!

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56 Year Old Mom Swimming Atlantic!
Fri, 01-16-2009 - 8:14am

Imagine training for a swim across the Atlantic Ocean when you're in your 50's! That's exactly what 56 year old Jennifer Figge has been doing. At this moment she's in the water attempting to be the first woman ever to swim the Atlantic Ocean. I wonder, if you had the means/opportunities would you try something like this and if so, what would it be?


The 56-year-old mother of a racecar driver plans to swim six to eight hours a day within a 20-by-13-foot cage custom-designed to protect her from sharks and other predators. When Figge’s not swimming, the engines on her support boat, Carried Away, will be turned off and the catamaran will drift toward its ultimate destination, the Barbados. Carried Away arrived in the Cape Verde Islands from the Canary Islands, where it had been shipped last month on a freighter.


"They say a message in a bottle takes 60 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean," says Figge, who lives in Aspen, Colorado. "I hope to move a bit faster."


Figge’s first endurance challenge was a 12-day run in 1989 across Iowa, where she was born and raised. Her son Alex’s third-grade class charted her course by moving pushpins across a map. Today, followers can monitor Figge through a tracking device found via her Facebook page, where she’s chronicling the adventure: www.facebook.com/pages/Jennifer-Figge/31076423324.




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