Novelist Pico Iyer calls his kind, The Floating Tribe. An Indian of blood and ancestry, Iyer was raised and educated in England, but has lived for decades in both Japan and the U.S.A. He is similar to the estimated 220 million individuals around the globe who live outside their country of origin. Like New Yorker Ned Denison in Ireland or Tokyoite Yuko
Jamie Patrick is training hard to swim 90 miles (144.8 km) across Lake Michigan this coming August. He is gradually building up his strength and acclimatization to the effects of long lake swimming…with plans to spend approximately 55 hours swimming constantly in a lake...something no man has yet done in history, although Vicki Keith has swum 3 times over
Ron Davis is an American open water swimmer from Florida who set the 70-74 age group record in Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida with a time of 39:50. Davis set his record when he completed a crossing in the lake, swimming for the first time without a pull buoy to aid him. No equipment, no pull buoy…but together with a bunch of his friends from Lucky's Lake,
Ten months after receiving a shock of his life, American open water swimmer Gene Augustin set a record in Lake Cane, Orland of 39:22 for the 80-84 year age group. Lucky Meisenheimer commented, "Not bad considering he was receiving chemo just a few weeks ago." Earlier this year in January, the 82-year-old Augustin was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but
This seems like a cool place to stay for a swimmer, especially since Lucky Meisenheimer holds his daily workouts in Lake Cane not too far away. Wake up early, do the Lucky's Lake Swim with Lucky and his mates, and then spend the rest of the day synchronizing your vacation with swimming friends like Olympic medalists Kristy Kowal and Brooke Bennett and
We think of the possibilities. Lucky Meisenheimer M.D. is a well-known, well-published American physician, open water swimmer, author, actor, and open water swimming event organizer in Orlando, Florida. The Lucky's Midnight Swim, Aquatica Swim, and his Lucky's Lake Swims in Lake Cane are renowned in the American open water swimming community, drawing
50 local swimmers set the world non-stop open water swimming relay record in Lake Cane in Orlando, Florida, U.S.A. only a few years ago. Then it was two relay teams of international marathon swimming superstars, including Penny Palfrey, Michelle Macy and Julie Bradshaw, that upped the ante in Lake Taupo in New Zealand (shown on left). The Night Train
