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\"LeavingEnglandBlogSize\"<\/a>Jim Bayles \u201970, a Masters World Championship swimmer, has swum across the English Channel, around Manhattan, and through the tumultuous current from Cape Cod to Nantucket. A competitive athlete at Williston, and later at Dartmouth College, Mr. Bayles now swims to raise money for charity, namely the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Epilepsy Foundation of Connecticut.<\/p>\n

What is your first memory of being in the water?<\/strong>
\nIt was either at a country club or out in a lake in Northern Michigan. Swimming has always been something I enjoyed, even when I wasn\u2019t very good. I just love being in the water.<\/p>\n

When did you decide to start swimming competitively again?<\/strong>
\nI seriously started to swim again at 36. At 40 I swam in the World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was faster than each of my entry\/goal times and I knew I wasn\u2019t going to get any faster so I continued to work out, but I had no real desire to compete in a pool again. Eventually I began to wonder if I could swim a marathon for charity. The first swim I did for charity I raised close to $12,000, and for the past 20 years I\u2019ve continued to swim for causes that are close to me.<\/p>\n

What precautions do you take when swimming alone in open water?<\/strong>
\nA friend of mine gave me an orange buoy that I call my \u201clittle lamb.\u201d It\u2019s attached to my waist and floats behind me. I\u2019ve never really felt scared about anything while swimming.<\/p>\n

I understand you enjoy PB&J sandwiches while swimming, how do you eat the sandwich without it getting wet?<\/strong>
\nVery carefully. They hand you a quarter of the sandwich in a plastic bag and you hold the food with one hand while you carefully pull it out with the other, all the while kicking like crazy.<\/p>\n

What was it like being coached by Wilmot Babcock?<\/strong>
\nHaving a brother who went to Williston before me, I knew all about him. He was a wonderful coach. A self-taught swimmer and diver, he was trying to do new things in a four lane 25-yard pool with clickity clackity lane lines. Duff Tyler was also my coach; he used to keep track of my times. Williston helped me mature from adolescence into an adult; these men really cared about who we were, and not just in the pool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Bayles \u201970, a Masters World Championship swimmer, has swum across the English Channel, around Manhattan, and through the tumultuous current from Cape Cod to Nantucket. A competitive athlete at Williston, and later at Dartmouth College, Mr. Bayles now swims to raise money for charity, namely the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Epilepsy Foundation … Continue reading 5 Questions for…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,25],"tags":[123,192,194,191,193],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-questions","category-alumni-sports","tag-class-of-1970","tag-epilepsy-foundation-of-connecticut","tag-jim-bayles","tag-juvenile-diabetes-research-foundation","tag-wilmot-babcock"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":833,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}