Individuals who do marathon swims are motivated for/by a wide variety of reasons. In contemporary times it is relatively easy to explain those reasons via websites, blogs and emails.

We recently came across Graeme Schlachter‘s reasons for swimming the English Channel and Graeme (aka ZimHippo), the third Zimbabwean to successfully swim the Channel, gave some compelling reasons for entering the open water and pushing himself to the outer boundaries of his physical and mental limits.

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