https://community.usms.org/swimming/f/general/5366/bilateral-breathing-pros-and-consThis was in a New York Times article last week about the annual swim around Manhattan: &#39;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 anden-USTelligent Community 12https://community.usms.org/thread/69691?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:20:50 GMT3187ac58-ba85-4314-b79a-c45cd885e09a:fb38815e-08f3-4b76-ac62-227e45ffa20fFormer MemberThis was in a New York Times article last week about the annual swim around Manhattan: &#39;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. . . .&quot; On the other hand . . . &#39; &quot;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.” &#39; As long as Weill&#39;s disease and other oddities that might lurk in those waters don&#39;t make you tear up...I guess it&#39;s all good.<div style="clear:both;"></div>