Imagine waking up one day anddeciding you’re going to go someplace where you can race in the ocean against other swimmers -for a mile. Well, some probably did that on July 28, but they didn’t do what Daniel Galarza did in the Barnegat Light Ocean Mile Swim. He won the darned thing. Oh, and there’s a really good kicker to this story.

“This is my first ocean swim,” said the 20-year-old, from Edison. “This summer, I wanted to do an ocean swim – a good race with a lot of competition.