<p>In case you need something to do once your nest empties… As for me, I’ll stick with acting in community theater as my hobby.</p>
<p>"Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month.</p>
<p>Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean a dream she’d had since the early 1960s, when a stormy trans-Atlantic flight got her thinking she could don a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed.</p>
<p>The 56-year-old left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa’s western coast on Jan. 12, battling waves of up to 30 feet and strong winds…</p>
<p>Her journey comes a decade after French swimmer Benoit Lecomte made the first known solo trans-Atlantic swim, covering nearly 4,000 miles from Massachusetts to France in 73 days. No woman on record has made the crossing…"
[FOXNews.com</a> - Jennifer Figge, 56, Becomes First Woman to Swim Atlantic - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,489704,00.html]FOXNews.com”>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,489704,00.html)</p>
<p>And here I was feeling accomplished that I finally this morning resumed my exercise program with a ten minute cardio workout and 60 situps!</p>
<p>I find this idea of swimming across the Atlantic just about unbelievable! What about sharks, hypothermia, exhaustion? There must be a boat alongside so she can get out to sleep, eat, warm up?</p>
<p>For anyone who wants to learn a little more about open water swimming I highly recommend the book *Swimming to Antarctica *by Lynne Cox who became the first person to swim across the Bering Strait.</p>
<p>I too find this unbelieveable. I would think waves would be so strong it wouldn’t matter what your arms/legs did. Sometimes you would make progress, and sometimes…not.</p>
<p>I see she had a boat to sleep & eat on at night, and each day spent anywhere from 21 min. to 8 hours in the water swimming.</p>
<p>I guess if you added up all the miles pulled by Michael Phelps in training, he probably crossed the ocean a few times…</p>
<p>Not to belittle her accomplishment, but it seems to have only marginally more point to it than swimming laps. For most of her journey, the scenery never changed!</p>
<p>We could do a relay - I’ll swim 100 yards and get back in the boat. Then you swim a hundred yards. Then me. of course we’d need a big boat with a crane to haul me out of the water after the first couple of times.</p>
<p>“covering nearly 4,000 miles from Massachusetts to France in 73 days.”</p>
<p>Is that what the Frenchman did in his swim?! I find even that to be impossible. It calculates to more than 54 miles a day!!! Did that actually happen?!</p>