This is amazing!

Cool stuff.

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That's 131.6km, for the metrically inclined.

I get tired just biking that far.

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Very impressive. Is there much of a current there to help her out?

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Read an update a short while ago that she had a fairly stiff head wind that started this morning.

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Meh.

It's not like it's 82 miles.

There are negligible currents in Lake Powell. She is swimming every mile (or km), actually probably more, because the stated distance is shortest swimmable path.

She's got about 3 miles to go.

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Unbelievable swim, she will be a worthy world record holder. I don't think people appreciate what it takes to swim for that many hours and that many miles, unassisted, no wetsuits or gadgets, just you, your kayak and crew, and the occasional sardine they throw out to you to eat!!!

GO SARAH!!

IS she done? Tracker looks like it hit the shore!!

She's done. Finished about 30 minutes ago. 56 hours 5 minutes.

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Tim - Can you tell us something about her training for this epic feat??? How many meters per week, etc??? Did she train mainly in the pool???

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Big wow and I'd also be interested if you know anything about how she structured her training for it.

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Wow. Just wow. 56hrs of swimming... Hopefully there will be a writeup somewhere or some video even? What were the conditions like?

http://marathonswimmers.org/...368/4ENAFSCY57V7.jpg

more details here:
http://marathonswimmers.org/...ona/p1#Comment_22563

I don't know what she did specifically for the race. I don't coach her. I've trained people for Tampa Bay Marathon swim, END-WET, but nothing where you are in the water for 56 hours.

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I'm sure she'll post her log books for the swim and those will contain the conditions during the whole race. You can use the marathon swimming federation link that was posted.

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In that first linked picture, she is so greased up that it looks like she's wearing a white wetsuit!!! Acc to her 4 Oct post pre-swim, water temp is 70-72* F and air in the 60s day and down into the 40s at night. Wow, 56 hrs of gradually getting colder and colder, not to mention your body getting more and more tired. Will be very interesting to see how many cal/hr she took in. I would guess she was burning 800-ish cal/hr so I'd guesstimate that she'd need to take in at least 400-ish/hr.

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Amazing. I don't think I could stay awake for 56 hours, much less swim that whole time.

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Amazing.

A bit off topic but it seems to me Lake Powell would be the ultimate venue for a swim run event.

For 56 hours could she really run a 400 cal/hr deficit? That would be a 22,400 calorie deficit over the whole swim! I understand she will probably be burning a lot of fat but.... I would think she would need to be much closer to taking in what she is burning.

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Check out the picture of Kim Chambers half way down this article!
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I just don't think her bodily system could handle 600-700 cal/hr, but this is just IMO. Also, 22,400 cal is *only* 6.4 lbs of fat lost in 56 hrs. Looking at the article linked by Kay Serrar, Kim Chambers lost 15 lbs in about 25 hrs; if we guesstimate that she lost 9 lbs of water and 6 lbs fat, this would be about 21,000 cal over 25 hrs or about 840 cal/hr. In this swim, temps were again 70-ish so I'd bet she using an extra 200 or so cal just to stay warm. In any case, both Kim and Sarah were obv burning a sh*t ton of calories!!!

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Ah yes, zinc oxide, how could I have forgotten, used to wear it on my nose a good bit. Thanks for that link, great story on that swim attempt. And, as far as I could tell she is an AOS, no less. :)))))

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