Jennifer Figge.....or Fraud?

I had to laugh the other day when I heard that Jennifer Figge, a 56 year old from Colorado (I know some real marathon legends from Colorado and Jennifer Figge, you are not one of them), swam 2,100 miles across the Atlantic Ocean!

After reading the fine print, it was pointed out that she had swam less than ten percent of the entire distance. It’s amazing how certain so called swimmers talk themselves up. I know quite a few of them.

Firstly. she claims that she did not see a shark on the entire swim. Mind you, it would have been hard when she was sun baking on the back of her catamaran. Even when she did enter the water, she was in a shark cage with a wetsuit on.

Of the 24 days that she sailed across the ocean, she only swam on 19 of them. One time, she was only in the water for 19 minutes, about the time it takes me to have a bath! I don't wear a wet suit when I enter my bath so I do actually get wet.

There have been a lot of e-mails on the English Channel chat site. One in particular, by Cliff Golding, was very funny. He summed up Jennifer Figge’s incredible story quite descriptively.

Of course, there has to be one idiot who believes her swim
should be acknowledged. Yes, it was that serial pest, “Clarke Kent” from Canada, who still wears that chip on his shoulder because he failed in his English Channel attempt. He even called we successful English Channel swimmers snobs!!.

Well Clarke [or is it Rob?, certainly not Superman], we are not snobs.

Mr Kent, I suggest you hook up with Jennifer Figge and compare wet suits. Maybe then you can claim to have crossed the English Channel…….in a plane, of course.

Jennifer Figge’s swim was nearly as good as "Percy McRoberts"
100 long courses at Brighton one winter. A free coffee to anyone who can guess the cryptic clue behind this name.

Here’s a clue: He claims to have swam better than Yvonne across the English Channel which is quite amazing considering he laid on his back the whole way!