A Washington ice swimmer spent 18 months preparing to break a national record. Then Puget Sound stopped cooperating.
SEATTLE —
Melissa Kegler has spent years willingly inducing hypothermia.
As an open water ice swimmer, a sport that requires competitors to swim long distances in water colder than 41 degrees Fahrenheit, she has “chased the cold” across Washington state, plunging into frigid lakes and coastal channels to condition her body for this extreme endurance sport.
In 2022, she briefly held the U.S. distance record for ice swimming. She has spent the past year and a half training to reclaim it.
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