Leslie Thomas

Leslie is a certified USAT Level 1 coach and head swim coach for the See Jane Run all-women triathlon team. She is also a Weekend Workshop Director for the Total Immersion company.

Leslie has been swimming her whole life and finds great peace and joy being in the water. In 1997 she was introduced to open water swimming on Long Island, and from the first swim she was hooked! Since then she has swum various distances in open water all over the world. Most recently she competed in the 2008 Rottnest Channel Swim off the coast of Perth, Western Australia (photos). In 2007 she swam in the Tampa Bay Marathon (see her race report and memorial to Dave Parcells). She also piloted her friend JP in October of 2005 on his successful English Channel swim and in June 2007 on his Manhattan Island Swim.

A native Californian, Leslie has lived in Pennsylvania, New York, and Germany. She has a degree in Biology from Bryn Mawr College and worked in academic publishing for nine years. She sits regularly at the San Francisco Zen Center as well.