To earn that title, Tom Warren victoriously swam 2.4 - 05.14.79. He was taking the gale head-on now, but at least I the stinging rain had stopped and his mind was still working. Keep concentrating, Tom Warren told himself. Still 20 miles to go, most of it into that awful wind, the same gale he had been fighting for 120 miles and almost nine hours. The bass drum in his leg was getting louder, and his head flopped sideways. Up ahead stood a man and his wife, paunchy, middle-aged Hawaiian tourists, watching a spectacle outside their ken. Past the astonished couple the runner stumbled, shirtless, eyes down, concentrating to avoid delusion and shock.
The athlete had been stung by a jellyfish and partially blinded by salt water. Warren did not want to take leave of his agony and look up at the distracting grandeur of the distant mountains. That morning 15 people, including a woman, had ignored the boundaries of sanity and started the contest. Originally 28 people had said they would enter—including three with shaved heads, one of whom wore an earring.
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