E51 - Dean Madsen - Training for a 40km Swim with Parkinsons.
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Dean Madsen shares his inspiring journey of training for long-distance swims while living with Parkinson's disease.
Send us Fan Mail This week we sit down with Auckland swimmer Dean Madsen — a man who knows what it means to push limits in and out of the water. Dean’s journey started in the world of triathlon and Ironman, where endurance and grit became part of his DNA. These days his focus is on two of New Zealand’s greatest open water challenges: the 40km Lake Taupō crossing and the legendary Cook Strait swim. But Dean’s story goes much deeper than training and KM's. Over the past year he’s faced a ...
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