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Archive Home > 2009 > July > 28 > Determination makes swimmers ’survivors’

Determination makes swimmers ’survivors’

Open-water series starts Friday at Elk Lake

By Katie Brauns / The Bulletin
July 28, 2009

Training for a total of 11,000 meters of open-water swimming competition in five events over three days takes, at the very least, commitment.

But as 54-year-old Bend resident Connie Peterson, a nurse practitioner and the mother of two college-age boys explains, it takes more than commitment. It....

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