This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

It's been a grand, elevating, life-confirming experience these last two years.

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done.

In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.

You don't simply tell someone to get out there and win the tennis match. You say 'move your feet' or 'watch the fuzz on the ball' to really get into the Zen of it. You pull all that together, and then you just might hold up the Wimbledon Plate... It's not about winning first place but bringing every element of effort to whatever you do.