“Find me a puddle, and I’ll swim in it,” says Dave Barra, sitting outside a café in downtown New Paltz. Barra is on route to a local public pool to practice at least 5,000 yards of the 30,000 to 50,000 yards he has been averaging weekly for the past several years. Barra has used the workout to prepare for other open-water marathon swims. Nineteen intrepid marathon swimmers will soon test their mettle on the Hudson River, attempting in seven grueling days to swim between eight bridges — from ...
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Erin Quinn
Hudson Valley Times