Diana Nyad

So I'll tell you, those first few months, once I made the commitment to see if I was capable of this, chasing this dream again, I was underwater.

I was riding low in the water, and I would sit in my car with giant ice bags on my shoulders when I was done.

With just a four-hour swim, and I'd fall asleep for hours.

I'd be so knocked out.

But I stuck with it.

And month by month, week by week, I started getting there, and I became a swimmer again.

But it wasn't overnight, that's for sure.

How long did it actually take for you to get to a good point?

I'd say by December.

So that was four months.

I started at a couple hours and I moved to four hours.

And by December, I was doing 12-hour swims in a pool.

Not yet in the open ocean, but in a pool.

12 hours, which is tough on the shoulders.

You're definitely going to be developing the swimmer's body in 12 hours a day.

Yeah, I think disassociation, you know, I'm not sure what a clinical psychologist would say about this.

I'm not sure either.

Okay, so good.

We're just too lame in talking.

Right.