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...
by Diana Nyad | Mar 2, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
Evidently, the phrase we all know, Walk a Mile in My Shoes, probably was taken from a poem of 1895 by Mary T. Lathrap. Ms. Lathrap had written: “Walk a mile in his moccasins”, the poem further asking the reader to imagine things from another’s point of view. To...
by EverWalk | Feb 3, 2021 | Diana Blog, EverWalk Blog
The usual EverWalk party line is CONNECT. Connect with Nature. With your community, your neighborhood, your friends, strangers strolling in the park, fellow dog walkers. Connect with your brain vis a vis recent events, whether events of your own life or of the world...
