SWIMMING

LYNEE COX, cold water swimmer, March 25, 2003
CZIKOWSKY: I found it fascinating how you spent years learning how to better function in cold water. What I am wondering is more of the “why”? When you were younger, did you envision you would become a marathon cold water swimmer? How did you interest in this unique sport emerge?
COX: I grew up in Manchester, N.H., and had the opportunity to swim in the Atlantic Ocean and lakes in Maine and simply love swimming in open water. And when you live back there, lots of time the water back there is pretty cold. So I just started out enjoying swimming in cold water and started to be a research subject on cold exposure, and the idea was to try to help understand why I could acclimate the cold water and help others who had been exposed to cold, discovering new ways of re-warming.