Tag: Katie Pumphrey
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Maryland Ultra-marathon Swimming Katie Pumphrey Prepares For Artscape | WJZ
Maryland ultra-marathon swimming Katie Pumphrey prepares for Artscape
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Katie Pumphrey Completes Swim From Chesapeake Bay To Inner Harbor | WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore
She made it! Ultra-marathon open-water swimmer Katie Pumphrey, a Maryland native, swam 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday as part of a “Bay-to-Baltimore” history-making event. The swim started at Sandy Point State Park around 3 a.m. and finished at the Harborplace amphitheater.
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Chronic pain sufferer Katie Pumphrey completes 15-mile open water swim
See The Washington Post For the ensuing eight hours and 45 minutes, Pumphrey, 26, would fight fatigue and nausea in the water, pain in her back and, perhaps most difficult, the mental strain of trying to propel herself across the river and back. When she finished, she said, she stood on the beach and cried.…
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Fibromyalgia sufferer takes on her chronic pain by training to swim the English Channel
See The Washington Post When the drugs and the doctors and the physical therapists failed her, Katie Pumphrey had one choice left: She could run from pain or confront it, curtail her lifestyle or push it as far as pain would allow. Pumphrey, a 26-year-old swim coach and painter who has been in chronic pain…