by Diana Nyad | Aug 30, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
The list of moments I miss over this past month, since my heartthrob hounddog Teddy died, starts with missing walking him every day. Many don’t take on a dog as a pet because the care for them is admittedly time-consuming. They are pretty much helpless and need us for...
by EverWalk | Aug 2, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
Are you curious about the things, the buildings, the nature, the history of the area through which you walk, yet you find yourself continuing to ask: I wonder when that house that looks different than the others on the street was built—without ever finding out the...
by Diana Nyad | Jun 29, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
I was often asked by interviewers whether the long torturous hours swimming in the ocean were tougher on the body or the mind. My answer was: It starts with the body. If those shoulders are not trained, if the whole body (swimming, along with cross country skiing,...
by Diana Nyad | Jun 2, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
We homo-sapiens have never been considered the primo specimens of physicality in the animal world. How to compare our strength and speed and agility—the attributes of athletes—to the superiority of the apes, the cheetahs, the blue whales? But there is one...
by Diana Nyad | May 11, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
Ok, here comes the confession. When Bonnie and I finished the Cuba Swim, an undeniably bad-ass endeavor—not only the final achievement of 53 hours non-stop swimming from Cuba to Florida, but also the thirty-five years of pursuit, the four previous hellish attempts,...
by Diana Nyad | Apr 6, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
We now know that movement in general—any type of movement—makes us feel better than sitting still. In many hospital settings where long-term care is needed, nurses tend to get their patients up and circling the halls, rather than let them sit or lie pretty much...
