From ultrarunning to shooting sports, in some competitions women have the edge.
It’s been over 40 years, but Penny Lee Dean vividly remembers the cold.
Training was brutal, as Dean prepared for what would be a record-setting swim – regardless of sex – across the English Channel in 1978. “Your hands cramp, your legs cramp,” she remembers. After emerging from her practice open-water swims, it would take hours for her to start feeling warm again. A 20-minute hot shower wasn’t enough. Neither was a dip in a single hot tub; as soon as one grew cold, she would enter another one cradling a cup of tea. Read More
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