Adventure Edge Radio with Jimmy Buff: Episode 1

Starting today, Sierra Blogging Post will be hosting weekly podcasts with adventurer and radio DJ Jimmy Buff.

Each week on Adventure Edge Radio, Buff will interview a great in the outdoor sports world. He’ll also cover weekly sports and outdoor news, which will nicely complement what we talk about on The Blogging Post. We’re so thrilled he’s joined the team and know you will be, too.

In this week’s podcast, the featured interview will be legendary long distance swimmer, Lynne Cox. Listen in on the first episode of Adventure Edge Radio below… simply click “play now” or “play in pop up”.

 

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“Lynne Cox began swimming at age 9. By 12, she was training with Olympic coach Don Gambrill and seemed poised to follow a traditional path into the world of competitive swimming, following the black lines on the bottom of pool and striving for wins measured in tenths of a second.

But in 1971, at age 14, Cox went on a long group swim with some friends – in fact, they swam 27 miles across the Catalina Channel, between Seal Beach, California and Catalina Island, in a litter over 12 and a half hours. Cox was so taken by the experience that she began to train to swim the English Channel and the following year Cox did just that while at the same time breaking both the men’s and women’s record for the 21 mile crossing. Thus the legend of Lynne Cox, endurance swimming legend was born and in the years since Cox has conquered an amazing array of open water swims in some of the harshest conditions in the world.

In fact, Cox has swum in the Antarctic and, just recently, the Arctic, in water at or below the freezing mark. These are swims that would be life threatening to most of us but Cox is a physiological exception to the rule.

Cox has written two books — Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long Distance swimmer and Grayson, about her true life and life changing encounter with a baby Gray Whale in the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean when she was 17. For more about Lynn Cox, visit her website.

About Jimmy Buff:

A 24 year radio veteran, Buff is the program director and midday host at WDST in Woodstock, New York, and an avid outdoor enthusiast. Buff’s passion for the outdoors is seemingly limitless - he enjoys mountain biking, trail and ultramarathon running, ice and rock climbing, and kayaking.

His dream run is the West Highland Way, a 95 mile hiking trail from north of Glasgow to Fort William, though the Western States 100 and Leadville 100 are close behind.

In September, Buff will tackle his first 100 miler, albeit one closer to his Catskill Mountain home: the Iroquois Trails 100 in Virgil, New York.

Buff shares his home with wife Tracy, three dogs and a very tolerant cat.

To view Buff’s weekly podcasts, check back every Tuesday.