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13-year-old boy swims 12 miles across Lake Tahoe

13-year-old boy swims 12 miles across Lake Tahoe
BOOKS. HAVE FUN GO BABY. I WOKE UP EARLY AND I SWAM ACROSS IT A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD SWIMMER FROM LAS MANOS. I THINK IT’S COOL. JUST LIKE HAVE MY LITTLE THING GOING TO FIND TODD’S DOING SOMETHING. MOST PEOPLE CAN’T EVEN IMAGINE. WE STILL SAY THAT EVERY DAY. HE DID WHAT BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE A DAILY OCCURRENCE WITH HIM AS HE DID WHAT JAMES SAVAGE SWAM THE TRUE WITH OF LAKE TAHOE LAST WEEK FROM CAVE ROCK TO THE GRAND AVENUE DOCK NEAR FLORIDA LOCK ON THE WEST SHORE ALL 12 MILES OF IT ONE DAY MY BOAT PILOT TOOK ME ACROSS LAKE TAHOE WHEN I’D LIKE SWIMMING THERE, SO I THOUGHT DOING LINKS AND STUFF ACROSS IT AND I HAVE DONE TWO OUT OF THREE NOW LAKE TAHOE. HE’S IN JAMES’S ONLY FEET. HE DOES GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE EVERY YEAR. HE DOES ALCATRAZ EVERY YEAR THERE IS A LITTLE 1 MILER IN LAKE TAHOE THAT HE DOES EVERY YEAR. I’VE ALSO DONE THE LINKS OF SAINT LOUIS DRIVES OF OR WHEN SHE WAS SEVEN POINT THREE MILES THAT WAS HIS FIRST MARATHON LEGAL MARATHON SWIM FIRST PERSON TO EVER SWIM ACROSS SAN LUIS RESERVOIR. I DON’T KNOW WHAT MADE HIM FALL IN LOVE WITH IT. YOU KNOW WHEN HE WAS YOUNGER AND HE TOLD ME MOM. I WANT TO SWIM FROM ALCATRAZ BECAUSE I LAUGHED IN HIS FACE. I MEAN WHO ENTERTAINS THAT IDEA AND THEN THREE DAYS LATER HE DID IT. HE DID IT. WELL, THESE LONG-DISTANCE SWIMS DON’T HAPPEN WITHOUT A LOT OF PRACTICE AND DETERMINATION. USUALLY WE START OVER. JOB SLOWER, LIKE ON MONDAYS. WE’LL START WITH TWO TO THREE MILES JUST AT THESE HAVE THE WEEKEND OFF. WE’LL GIVE HIM A COUPLE MILES AND THEN AS THE WEEK PROGRESSES IT GETS MORE AND MORE AND THEN FRIDAYS ARE HIS BIG DAY WHERE HE HAS A 10 LINE 10 MILE PERIMETER LOOP OF THE LAKE. WE JUST FOLLOW THE SHORELINE AND DO THE ENTIRE PERIMETER IS SWIM PARTNER. ALWAYS RIGHT BY HIS SIDE. I FOLLOWED HIM IN A KAYAK EVERY DAY. YES. WE DON’T LIKE TO SEND THEM OUT ALONE. JAMES ALREADY HAS HIS I SAID, NEW GOAL RIGHT NOW. MY NEXT GOAL IS THE PERIMETER OF CORONADO WHICH IS 10 MILES OR 12 MILES. WHAT ELSE DO YOU HAVE PLANNED A ROUND-TRIP ANGEL ISLAND? YEAH, HE GETS THESE BRIGHT IDEA. WE KIND OF CALL HIM HIS STUPID IDEAS AND WE ROLL WITH IT, YOU KNOW, IF THAT’S WHAT HE WANTS TO DO, THEN WE’LL DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. WE COULD BE DOING A LOT WORSE AT
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13-year-old boy swims 12 miles across Lake Tahoe
A 13-year-old boy from Los Banos swam across Lake Tahoe, putting him in the record books. James Savage swam the true width of the lake -- 12 miles from Cave Rock to Grand Avenue Dock in Tahoe Pines. Get the full story in the video above.

A 13-year-old boy from Los Banos swam across Lake Tahoe, putting him in the record books.

James Savage swam the true width of the lake -- 12 miles from Cave Rock to Grand Avenue Dock in Tahoe Pines.

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Get the full story in the video above.