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MADHU NAGARAJA!
Generously, Madhu has agreed to come to our swim and to share his wealth of wisdom and experience with us.
For those that may not know, Madhu Nagaraja is an ordinary man that does extraordinary things.
Educated at Mysore, McGill and Stanford universities, Madhu is an experienced corporate leader, marathon swimmer, and all-around adventurer. He successfully swam across the English Channel and Lake Ontario, finished the gruelling Marathon des Sables, and is preparing for a 2018 return to the Straits of Magellan, one of the most difficult cold water crossings in the world with waters below 5 degrees celsius.
Madhu attempted to do this swim in 2015 and had a "successful failure" as he called in his blog.
Disappointment, is part of any sport.
It is how he choose to see such disappointment, what we learn from it and more importantly how we choose to act after, what really makes a difference. After the attempt Madhu wrote: "the nice thing is, we are all still alive and we can go back stronger and work with Mother Nature, follow the rules set by her to get across. It is simple... Yes, it is ok to fail. Yes, I survived to tell you all that we failed to swim across the Straits of Magellan. But, we had a lot of fun doing this. Yes, we'll go back to swim across the straits of Magellan. I'm sure it'll be a blast and yes, I'll need all your help again".
Madhu is on elf the founders of the Great Lakes Trust that began as a simple idea: open-water swimmers finding ways to give back to the waters we love. Today is a collective of experts and advocates who help others to think in the long term, solving problems so much bigger than any one community or generation, protecting one fifth of the planet’s fresh water.
