I believe the FINA rules only apply to U.S. Swimming and Masters Swimming-sanctioned events, plus of course international OWS events sanctioned by FINA. The FINA rules certainly would not apply to this 104 mile swim, even if the water were below 68* F. As I said in my reply to zentribrett, i think the new rules are causing a big rift between the OW traditionalists and the FINA level competitive side of OWS.

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"Anyone can be who they want to be IF they have the HUNGER and the DRIVE."

Very interesting, thanks for your on-the-water perspective. I would assume she has had weather experts advising her on when to give this swim a try. When swimming, I would think she's prob going around 2-2.5 mph. She's an incredibly talented distance swimmer to be able to keep this kind of pace up for 50-60 hours or more.

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Sarah's now past mile 80 on the tracker. Been averaging 1.7 mph since I first started watching this at mile 50 yesterday.

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Trying to follow along with the tracker. It worked fine for me yesterday but the page won't load this morning. Are any of you others able to open it? If so, where is she on the tracker today? Rooting for her despite not being able to follow along!

Tracker won't load for me, either. Hope she's still plugging away at it!

I wonder what it would be like to swim in a wetsuit for 24 hours? chaphing issues?

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looks to be around mile 83 if the tracker is working right.

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wow! thanks for the update!

Knowing how functional I am as I exceed 36 hrs awake, it boggles my mind that she will be going non-stop for ~63hrs with no sleep.

She's at 54.5 hr and 90.6 miles right now. I would guess she's going on pure adrenaline and drive at this point. This girl has the HUNGER and the DRIVE in spades.

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Wow. Has she broken the record already? Wasn't the recognized record somewhere around 80 miles?

This is incredible.

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She's at 95 miles and still swimming!

Jebuz. So, she should finish around 1:30 AM ET? That would mean 65 hours of nonstop swimming. That is ~2 days and 17 hours. WOW.

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Sure hope she makes it. Those tracker dots seems to be getting closer and closer together.

Ya, she has already broken her own WR which was the 80-mi swim she did in Oct 2016 swimming across Lake Powell in Utah. This swim is the current WR acc to an article in the Mar/April 2017 issue of Swimmer, the official magazine of USMS.

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You'd have to put a LOT of Vaseline on to avoid chafing in a 24-hr wettie swim.

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Ya, she has already broken her own WR which was the 80-mi swim she did in Oct 2016 swimming across Lake Powell in Utah. This swim is the current WR acc to an article in the Mar/April 2017 issue of Swimmer, the official magazine of USMS. //

I don't think it is true that she has broken the WR. As I recall you have to complete your swim, as in finish up the beach, it is not a gps distance out in the middle of the ocean or lake. Swims don't count unless they are finished, you do not get credit(officially) for any distance you did before a DNF..


Unless things have changed, that is how I believe it works.

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OK, I stand corrected then.

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This is half true, half false.

True that GPS distances don't count, and true that a DNF cannot be a record.

However, since Sarah has already swum more than 80 miles (the previous record, also owned by her), and because of the shape of Lake Champlain, she could choose to turn in toward land at any time, exit the water, and finish the swim. This would not be a DNF, but rather, a route change. Therefore, if she turned in now, exited the water at a specific, definable point, it would be a new distance record, even if she didn't make it all the way back to the start.

She's near a peninsula right at the 100 mile mark. I wonder if she'll do that. Exit there for a 100 mile swim, or continue back to the dock she started from for the planned 104 miles.

No way. She is so close. She'll finish.

I am just so glad she is finishing outside of work hours. This is a total distraction.

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San Luis Obispo, CA

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What was the final time / avg pace? Amazing accomplishment.

Acc to the tracker, she swam 169.6 km (105.4 mi) in 67:15, or about 2.52 km/hr (1.57mph). Her total time includes time for refueling every 30 min or so. In her Oct 2016 swim where she set the previous WR, she went 81.8 mi in 56:05 (1.46 mph) but I believe she had more problems with a head wind in that swim. Acc to the USMS article I mentioned earlier, she almost gave up at 30 hr b/c she had only gone about 40 mi, and hence had more than 40 to go. Also, here's the link to the ST thread on that swim from last October; Sarah herself (Ssthomas) actually chimed in several times.

http://forum.slowtwitch.com/...im_P6098843/?page=-1

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Saw that she made it, what a grinder she is. She is single handily pushing the limits of ultra swimming. It would be interesting to see what she could accomplish in the ocean sometime.

And yes, she could have headed to shore anywhere after the 80 miles and still got the record. My point was that you have to have a start and a finish, but the finish can be mobile once the swim is underway. Lots of swims do not finish where they planed to, currents can be bastards sometimes.. That is why ocean swim crossings are so tricky, you usually don't have the luxury of just heading to shore. You are out in the open ocean and reaching land anywhere is usually not much easier than the finish you planned. We have opted several times to run with currents and swim longer courses(but faster) and just plan a finish wherever we ended up..

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I see what you did there.