Local couple rack up the miles at rec pool

Jogging or walking is a common exercise for many adults.
Walt and Mary Ann Regehr take a different approach during the summer by swimming a mile per day.
If jogging, one mile takes about 10 minutes. Swimming that same distance takes exponentially longer because it’s much harder to move in water than on land. A mile at the recreation pool is 64 lengths and will take about 50 minutes.
“If we go really fast, it can be 47 minutes, but that’s about as fast as we go,” Mary Ann, 58, said jokingly.
Even increasing their mile time by just three minutes…

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