started her training in the Caribbean in January 2013 with 12-hour workouts of nonstop swimming and eventually worked up to 14, 18, 20, and 24 hours. Nyad also said that while she swims she remembers Stephen Hawking books, sings, counts numbers and has vivid hallucinations of The Wizard of Oz and the yellow brick road. Dancing with the Stars performances On March 4, 2014, Nyad was announced as one of the celebrities to compete on the 18th season of Dancing with the Stars, in which she finished in last place. She was partnered with professional dancer Henry Byalikov. Other media appearances In 1989, Nyad was a guest correspondent on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries about Alcatraz. She assisted on a segment that detailed real-life, current reenactments of both kayakers and a swimmer attempting to traverse San Francisco Bay. Nyad appeared in the Macy Gray music video for the song “Bang, Bang” in 2014. Also in 2014, Nyad performed in her solo show (which she had also written) called ONWARD – The Diana Nyad story, which premiered that year at the NoHo Arts Centre Theater in Los Angeles, directed by Josh Ravetch. Honors, awards and distinctions Nyad was inducted into the United States National Women's Sports Hall of Fame in 1986. She is also an International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame Honoree (1978) and an ISHOF Al Schoenfield Media Award recipient (2002). She is a Hall of Famer at her college, Lake Forest College in Illinois, and at her high school, Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale. 2014 Nyad was awarded the first ESPN Sports Science Newton Award for Outstanding New Limit. Nyad was awarded the L.A. Sports Council's Athlete of the Year award. She was inducted into the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. Nyad received the Jack LaLanne Award. She received the "Orden al Mérito Deportivo" [Order of Sporting Merit] Award, from Cuba. A bronze plaque honoring Nyad was unveiled on a concrete wall bordering Smathers Beach, where she ended her successful Cuba to Florida swim. Nyad was named one of National Geographic’s Adventurers of the Year. 2015 Nyad was shown in Marie Claire magazine's "The 8 Greatest Moments for Women in Sports." The book The Right Side of History: 100 Years of LGBTQ Activism by Adrian Brooks, was published; chapter 30 of the book, by Rita Mae Brown, was titled and was about Diana Nyad. Personal