Jen Schumacher is a graduate student at Cal State Fullerton working towards her Masters in Kinesiology with an emphasis on sport psychology. She is an avid open water swimmer and crossed the 21-mile stretch of the Catalina Channel in August 2009. She is now training to swim in the Manhattan Island Marathon Swim, a current-assisted 28.5-mile race around the island in New York on June 12, 2010.
Jen dedicates her training and marathon swims to the Surfrider's Rise Above Plastics campaign, a nationwide initiative to reduce plastic consumption and subsequent littering of our beaches and oceans.
I love this state and in MOST cases (aside from this and prop 8) we are open-minded, ahead of the game, progressive, and lead other states to similarly adopt positive measures. But in this instance, we have fallen miserably short: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-environment-20100902,0,5195731.story…
Big swims, as with many other big life events, can leave a feeling of emptiness when they pass for many people.
It’s been almost a week since the four of us swam the Kaulakahi, the channel between Kauai and Niihau. After a few relatively short swims, my body feels completely recovered. Well, almost - my lips are still blistered over, but almost healed.
Another victory: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/08/19/mexico.plastic.bag.ban/
Yesterday, Quinn Carver, Bill Goding, Brian Denaro, and I became the 5th-8th people to swim from Kauai to Niihau. Jeff Kozlovich paddled the entire distance with us as well.
Jen is about to embark on her swim between the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai and Niihau within the next hour.
