Mandy Sumner made headlines in March when she set a Guinness World Record for the longest bi-fin swim under ice by a woman in a swimsuit. The 46-year-old Sanford resident has made her name as a freediver and traveled all over the world, but she settled back in her home state during the COVID-19 pandemic and trained for her record-breaking swim here. Fittingly, a perfect day for Sumner involves plenty of time in view of water.
I would start my day – and I do this once a week anyway – down in Kennebunk at this place called Boulangerie. It’s a bakery. It’s my favorite. I love it. I travel a lot, and it’s the closest place I can find to Europe close to me. I usually go Thursday mornings. I usually get a blueberry scone and sourdough bread and a cappuccino with oat milk.
On the way back, I take my dog for a walk onto the blueberry plains on Route 99. It’s really cool. There’s a lot of trails out there on both sides of the road, and it extends into Sanford, Wells and Kennebunk. … In the summer, you have blueberries, and you can pick them. All the flowers start turning in the fall. It’s beautiful year-round there.
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