#171: Lauren Tischendorf on Swimming Around Lord Howe Island

Sparta Chicks Radio: Mindset | Confidence | Sport | Women

English - October 24, 2021 09:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Previous Episode: #170: Lucy Bloom on Getting the Girls Out

Next Episode: #172: Dr Erin Ayala on Values, Mental Health & Redefining Self Care

You’ll meet Lauren Tischendorf on Sparta Chicks Radio this week.

In 2021, Lauren because the first woman to swim around Lord Howe Island - a distance of 32.2km that she completed in 13 hours and 50 minutes. Lauren’s story is captured in an award-winning documentary called "I Just Went For a Swim”.

Lauren is a school teacher by day and an endurance athlete outside school hours.

An ultra-marathon runner, she started focusing on her ocean swimming about 5 years ago.

In that time, she’s become an accomplished ocean swimmer and is the reigning 5km ocean swimming champion of NSW.

And yet, an off-handed comment by another swimmer about the fact she couldn’t keep up with them prompted her to ask herself what she was capable of.

The result: a 32km swim around the shark-infested waters of Lord Howe Island.

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