Member 2014 - Present

2024 - Champion of Champions, Cork Distance Week, Ireland, 5 miles + 3 miles + 1 mile (9 miles), Nubble Light Swim, 2.4 miles, Egg Rock Scramble, 3.7 miles,
2023 - Champion of Champions, Cork Distance Week, Ireland, 5 miles + 3 miles + 1 mile (9 miles), Catalina Channel, 21 miles
2022 - SCAR Challenge: Saguaro, 13.3 km, SCAR Challenge: Canyon, 14.1 km, SCAR Challenge: Appache, 22.8 km, SCAR Challenge: Roosevelt, 10 km, English Channel, 21 miles
2021 - 10-mile Kingdom Swim, 20 Bridges Marathon Swim, 28.5 miles
2019 - Champion of Champions, Cork Distance Week, Ireland, 5 miles + 3 miles + 1 mile (9 miles), 3rd Place woman overall, Lee Vibes and Scribes Swim, Cork Ireland, 2km, 1st in age group, St. Vincent Swim Across the Sound, 25km, 1st place female overall, USMS Lake Willoughby National Championships, 5 miles, 3rd in age group
2018 - Lee Vibes and Scribes Swim, Cork Ireland, 2km, 1st in age group, Champion of Champions, Cork Distance Week, Ireland, 5 miles + 3 miles + 1 mile (9 miles),
Misery Challenge, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, 3 miles, 1st in age group skins, Kingdom Swim, Newport, VT, 25 km Border Buster, 2nd Place female, 3rd overall
2017 - Peaks to Portland, Portland ME, 2.4 miles, 2nd place female skins, Boston Light Swim, Boston MA, 8 miles, 2nd place female, 5th overall, Coney Island Triple Dip, 3 miles, 2nd Place female, Spuyten Duyvil 10km
2016 - Kingdom Swim, Newport, VT, 10-mile, 4th place female skins overall (National championship)
2015 - Kingdom Swim, Newport, VT, 6-mile, Misery Challenge, Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA, 3 miles, Boston Light Swim, Boston, MA, 8 miles

Martha A. Wood grew up in New Hampshire immersed in a life as a competitive swimmer. She went on to swim her sophomore year, and captain the first women’s water polo team at Harvard. She swam on and off after college, including for the Calgary Masters Swim Club from 1991-1997, before taking a 15-year break from swimming.

In her fifties, she returned to swimming near her home on the North Shore of Boston. Stepping beyond the walls of the pool, she took to the ocean. In the Fall, as she put off returning to the confines of the pool, her swims became increasingly cold. A few months later, in the aftermath of a life-threatening medical debacle, she left the hospital with a resolution to make the most of the time she had left on earth: To connect in a meaningful way with the world and people around her -- to be bold, live fearlessly and find joy.

After swimming her way back to health in a pool, she tracked down a winter swimming group, called the Nahant Knuckleheads, and joined them for weekly swims in the icy waters of South Boston and Nahant. The Knuckleheads and L Street Ice Swimmers became the best of friends, inspiring and guiding her on an unexpected journey into ice and open water marathon swimming.

Since 2015, Martha has trained in the winters with Masters swim teams (Charles River Masters, and Cambridge Masters) typically competing in 1-2 meets per season. Each summer, she challenges herself with an open water marathon swim -- leaving the pool for long training swims in the ocean and ponds. Most recently, she has gone on to complete the Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming comprised of the 20 Bridges swim around Manhattan (2021), the English Channel (2022) and the Catalina Channel (2023). In Ice swimming, she has competed at World Championships, winning several age group medals and setting a few age group world records. In November of 2024, she became the 47th person to swim a kilometer in Antarctica.