By Elaine K Howley
Front crawl might have been a better choice
Marathon swimming is an all-or-nothing proposition. You either reach the far shore or you don’t. Pass-fail. Yes-no. Take-it-or-leave-it. here’s no such thing as “almost” in swimming the English Channel. As the delightfully exasperating aphorism states: “Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” But with such binary situations, another truism can apply, too – if at irst you don’t succeed, try, try again. Ater all, practice makes perfect, right?