Pilar Geijo Connects Always With Her Open Water Friends
After competing in the King and Queen of the Sea event in Rio de Janeiro, Pilar Geijo (on right with American Lexie Kelly and Britain’s Keri-Anne Payne) imagined that Pedro Rego Monteiro, Luiz Lima and Patrick Winkler had a casual and relaxed conversation some years ago. “They were probably talking about their time as swimmers and discussing about life. Then suddenly one of them says ‘What about if we organise a swimming race?’I love the way how a small idea becomes real [with the King and Queen of the Sea]. I love imagining this process and I love when people decide to dream. I love it even more when those same people start to work to make their dreams come true.”
After returning to her home base in Argentina, the professional marathon swimming champion shared her thoughts with her newly found friends and old one, “I can still see all of you at the beach. I can still hear your voices. I can still listen to the sound of the waves and the sounds of the ocean. I feel the breeze on my face and the sound of our steps. This is the thing that I call a ‘live picture’…that kind of picture that you never need to delete because you have an unlimited capacity to keep it forever.
The ocean is connecting us, wherever we see water, we will be there.”
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Southern California native, born 1962, is the creator of the WOWSA Awards, Oceans Seven, Openwaterpedia, Citrus Corps, World Open Water Swimming Association, Daily News of Open Water Swimming, Global Open Water Swimming Conference. He is Chief Executive Officer of KAATSU Global and KAATSU Research Institute. Inductee in the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Swimmer, Class of 2001) and Ice Swimming Hall of Fame (Honor Contributor - Media, Class of 2019), recipient of the International Swimming Hall of Fame's Poseidon Award (2016), International Swimming Hall of Fame's Irving Davids-Captain Roger Wheeler Memorial Award (2010), USA Swimming's Glen S. Hummer Award (2007, 2010) and Harvard University's John B. Imrie Award (1984). Served on the FINA Technical Open Water Swimming Committee and as Technical Delegate with the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games, and 9-time USA Swimming coaching staff.
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