{"id":28779,"date":"2011-11-17T14:05:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T19:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2011\/11\/motivations-behind-an-adventure-swim\/"},"modified":"2014-07-29T00:14:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T07:14:51","slug":"motivations-behind-an-adventure-swim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/motivations-behind-an-adventure-swim\/","title":{"rendered":"Motivations Behind An Adventure Swim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO, California. November 17. <a href=&quot;http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Kate_Greene&quot;target=&quot;_blank&quot;><b>Kate Greene<\/b><\/a> of Nashville, Tennessee won the 2011 <a href=&quot;http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Adventure_Swim_Contest&quot;target=&quot;_blank&quot;><b>ADVENTURE Swim Contest<\/b><\/a> for her planned adventure swim from the east coast of American, starting in Tennessee to the west coast, ending in California <\/p>\n<p>There were a variety of motivations and inspirations behind her original application to the contest and her decisions about the logistics and venues of the <a href=&quot;http:\/\/openwaterpedia.com\/index.php?title=Kate_Adventure_Swim&quot;target=&quot;_blank&quot;><b>Kate Adventure Swim<\/b><\/a>, a series of individual swims across America.  <\/p>\n<p>She explains eloquently her reasons why:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<i>I want to know what it feels like to do something new, something difficult and, more often than not, something scary. 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