Frankly, the ocean conditions stank – horrendously, in fact. But a .jpg northeast wind and treacherous surf weren’t going to deter Anna Esposito and Gaby Hartney on July 24. It was the Long Beach Township Beach Patrol Women’s Invitational, after all, and they were determined to prove themselves capable of handling the conditions.

“We had been training all summer for the Mile Row, and we were going out there to do it,” Esposito said later, after she and Hartney won the event despite Hartney…