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2011 Alcatraz Sharkfest swim

The Alcatraz Sharkfest swim was 25 June 2011.
 
This was my 18th attempt to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco. I did finish; I only say “attempt” because all the blather about Alcatraz as this formidable escape-proof prison calls all the escape efforts “attempts”. But of course, we are wearing wetsuits (mostly), are doing it during [...]

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Filming Kelly Bruno for WSIC TV

Filming for WSIC TV continues and last week was all Kelly Bruno.
Kelly’s quick thumbnail story is that she was born with a birth defect that included not having a fibula or a foot-ankle on her right side. It made her lower leg useless and it was removed at six months of age. She has never [...]

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Next TV profile: Kelly Bruno

Kelly Bruno, age 27 from Boca Raton, FL, is a Duke graduate and now a medical student at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also a world-record holding amputee runner and triathlete, a former contestant on the TV series Survivor: Nicaragua, and the next person we will profile in Who Says I Can’t the TV Series.
Kelly [...]

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2011 Athletic Fundraising Appeal

Jothy & Carole’s 2011 Athletic Fundraising Appeal
Every year we take on 2 or 3 significant athletic challenges to raise money and give back. We need your help to reach our fundraising goals. To date, since 1998, we have raised and given to these causes over $100,000 thanks to so many generous donors. Thanks for all [...]

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Winter workout routine

Many people ask me what my normal training routine is that sets me up to ski, bike and swim the amount I do at the level I do (with one leg and one lung of course). I am writing this for people who are either working out themselves and want to compare notes or for [...]

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Boston Sharkfest coming

The granddaddy of all open water swims, the Alcatraz Sharkfest, is 18 years old and its creators, Dave and Wendy Horning, have decided to extend the coolness of that swim and that brand across the country. Boston is high on their list to include and I am pleased to have helped them select a locale [...]

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Alcatraz Sharkfest 2010 — you are there

You are there — giving you a feel for the Alcatraz experience
Far from routine this year. For the first time ever we got fogged out of the normal route. But I still did the swim. The water was cold and rough…just like I like it. And over $4,000 raised for Boston Healthcare for the Homeless [...]

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FitSugar: Jothy Rosenberg’s tips for surviving Sharkfest

FitSugar “Healthy Happy You” at http://www.fitsugar.com posted an article yesterday after asking me for tips to “survive” the Alcatraz Sharkfest swim based on 17 years of experience doing it.
The name for the open-water swim Sharkfest is equal parts intriguing and intimidating. Theone-and-a-half-mile swim starts on the famous prison island in the middle of San Francisco Bay [...]

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KRON TV4 San Francisco interview

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KGO Radio live – The Joanie Greggains show

Joanie Greggains has the most popular live Health and Fitness radio show in the Bay Area. In honor of my coming out there for my 17th Alcatraz Sharkfest swim, Joanie had me on her show on May 29th. On a land line talking to her from Maine where I was for Memorial Day weekend, Joanie [...]