http://www.stabenow.com/2009/07/24/loving-coasties The Official Dana Stabenow Web Site Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://www.stabenow.com/2009/07/24/loving-coasties/comment-page-1#comment-102095 Dana Stabenow » dana on the air today Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:19:18 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/?p=373#comment-102095 [...] 49 Writers, No Moose in June 2009, ‘Living Alaskan,’ ‘Loving Coasties,’ ‘Writing History,’ and ‘Confessing [...] [...] 49 Writers, No Moose in June 2009, ‘Living Alaskan,’ ‘Loving Coasties,’ ‘Writing History,’ and ‘Confessing [...]

]]> http://www.stabenow.com/2009/07/24/loving-coasties/comment-page-1#comment-92393 Kate Pavelle Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:12:57 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/?p=373#comment-92393 Yeah. The river police is pretty cool, too. I did my first triathlon yesteday, and as I swam across the river swollen with previous night's rain, nothing was as welcoming as the river police boats patrolling us :-) Dana when you write about Kate Shugak, she just "swims" in open water. I don't know if you do that sort of a thing, but for people used to pools, open water can be really scary and it totally freaked me out. I even had to lie on my back for awhile and do breathing exercises while I debated whether or not I should turn back. The water was so deep, and so wide, and so broad...and the current was so strong the longer-triathlon swimmers had a hard time, some of them swam in place for a long time before calling it quits. So yeah, coast guard and river police is great for us crazy types and I was so happy to see them out there. Yeah. The river police is pretty cool, too. I did my first triathlon yesteday, and as I swam across the river swollen with previous night’s rain, nothing was as welcoming as the river police boats patrolling us Dana when you write about Kate Shugak, she just “swims” in open water. I don’t know if you do that sort of a thing, but for people used to pools, open water can be really scary and it totally freaked me out. I even had to lie on my back for awhile and do breathing exercises while I debated whether or not I should turn back. The water was so deep, and so wide, and so broad…and the current was so strong the longer-triathlon swimmers had a hard time, some of them swam in place for a long time before calling it quits. So yeah, coast guard and river police is great for us crazy types and I was so happy to see them out there.

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