was an occasional assistant coach at British Swimming GB, and still swam for two hours every day.
She gave a lot of money to charitable causes – namely to Marie Curie Cancer Care –
and she had organised a fundraising charity swimathon around Brighton Pier for the Marine Conservation Society.
Since retiring from professional sport, she had swum the Channel twice.
There was a link to a TED talk she had given about the value of stamina in sport, and training, and life.
It had over a million views. As she began to watch it, Nora felt as though she was watching someone else.
This woman was confident, commanded the stage, had great posture, smiled naturally as she spoke,
and managed to make the crowd smile and laugh and clap and nod their heads at all the right moments.
She had never imagined she could be like this, and tried to memorise what this other Nora was doing,
but realised there was no way she would be able to.
‘People with stamina aren’t made any differently to anyone else,’ she was saying.
‘The only difference is they have a clear goal in mind, and a determination to get there.
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