Santa Cruz County Supervisor Mark Stone will be exchanging his suit for a Speedo sometime in the next two weeks as he plans to swim the English Channel. Stone has been training for the challenging swim since 2007 at both at the Simpkins Family Swim Center and in open waters, not even interrupting his daily workouts when he was up for reelection.
About 1,000 people have completed the swim across the English Channel, which was first conquered by Matthew Webb in 1875. In comparison, 2,700 people have made it to the summit of Mount Everest since it was first conquered in 1953. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
