She's crewed more than 30 marathon swims. She’s the VP of MOWSA. She's won the International Swimming Hall of Fame's highest writing honor twice. And she was on the boat for every one of the 54 hours it took Sarah Thomas to make history in the English Channel. In this conversation, Elaine Howley talks about what it means to give everything you have to a sport, not just as a swimmer, but as the person holding it all together from the boat.

She swam 104 miles without stopping. She crossed the English Channel four times in a row. In her first Water Logged conversation, Sarah Thomas talks about the swim that almost broke her — and the lesson she carries into every swim since.