Swimming to Antarctica

  From my last blog post there has been a lot of different changes and happenings in this story. So ever since Lynne has moved to California shes been doing alright, better and better every year, and every year she get's put up one lane higher ( the faster swimmers ), one day she had heard about their swimming team doing the swim from Catalina Island a twenty-one mile swim from there to Seal Beach, and she thought twice about it and made up her choice that she wants to do it. The swim was soon and they had to practice hard for it, so she swam in the afternoons and the principal allowed her to skip the last class for her to get to swimming to practice for her twenty-one mile swim. When it was coming closer and closer, they started to practice a lot in the ocean in the mornings( before school started ) so that they could get more and more used to the cold water temperature. The day finally came and Lynne was so excited but a little nervous too, so they headed out on a boat to Catalina Island and then they spent a couple days there still practicing but also getting used to swim in the dark, and getting used to the sleep times too.
  So the day came and they set out for the swim from there, they would be swimming in a upside down letter V with the fastest person up front and the slower swimmers following back, they would be following in the direction of the boat. As they were swimming it was still miles away, if they were hungry or thirsty they would just throw the food in the water hoping that they would catch it ( if they didn't then the food would be soaked in saltwater which tastes really bad ). It was approaching night and Lynne and the others noticed that the water temperature was dropping and getting colder and colder, but they couldn't stop they had to swim on ( the boat lights would guide them for which way to go ). As Nancy was swimming next to Lynne she was getting weaker and the cold water was building up on her more and more, when she said that she's freezing all her teammates and coaches encouraged her to keep going, she kept saying no no, so they decided to take her out and wrapped her in warm blankets, and later on they found out that she went into hypothermia but she's alright now, Lynne was hoping for her to be alright.
  As the sun was rising up, so was she, she was now one of the people in the lead getting stronger and stronger, more powerful, and swimming faster. She was so fast that she had to wait along for her other swim mates, when one of the men on-board yelled that there's five more miles to go, even though it wasn't far to shore everyone was so tired, but Lynne wasn't giving up so easily. When they were getting closer the coach on-board yelled out that Lynne's going to break not only women's but possibly men's swimming records in twenty-one miles ! Everyone encouraged her to swim ahead how much she wanted to and break the record, but she just couldn't;t she made a promise to wait for her swim-mates. Stacey was the last one falling behind, but she was Lynne's good friend so she decided to wait for her, and Andy and Dennis were making fun of Stacey.As they arrived to shore, finally they're there, and Dennis and Andy won the record, and bragged about themselves which made Lynne mad.