This was in a New York Times article last week about the annual swim around Manhattan:
'Rendy Lynn Opdycke, a graduate student from California, was among the first 25 solo swimmers accepted for the main event Saturday. She won the race last year and is a favorite again this year. “I would see Manhattan in movies and think, ‘I could swim around that,’ ” Opdycke said. “The swim goes counterclockwise and I breathe to the right, so I don’t see Manhattan at all as I swim. . . ."
On the other hand . . .
' "But when you’re coming down the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty gets bigger. I tear up because my grandparents came through Ellis Island.” '
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This was in a New York Times article last week about the annual swim around Manhattan:
'Rendy Lynn Opdycke, a graduate student from California, was among the first 25 solo swimmers accepted for the main event Saturday. She won the race last year and is a favorite again this year. “I would see Manhattan in movies and think, ‘I could swim around that,’ ” Opdycke said. “The swim goes counterclockwise and I breathe to the right, so I don’t see Manhattan at all as I swim. . . ."
On the other hand . . .
' "But when you’re coming down the Hudson River, the Statue of Liberty gets bigger. I tear up because my grandparents came through Ellis Island.” '
As long as Weill's disease and other oddities that might lurk in those waters don't make you tear up...I guess it's all good.
