Woman completes 981-mile river swim

Associated Press

CAIRO, Ill.

A Tennessee woman has completed her 981-mile swim of the Ohio River, ending in Illinois about two months after she started in Pittsburgh.

Mimi Hughes, 45, celebrated Saturday night at her final destination in Cairo, Ill. She set aside her diet of energy bars and electrolytes to have a veggie burger, fries, ice cream and beer.

Hughes is a community- college reading specialist who began the swim May 22 to raise money for women’s education programs worldwide.

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