In the NPR interview with her, she was stuck on the words to "Horse with no name" as she swam, and of course NPR played the song as the segue...
Her last name is deeply appropriate. (see what I did there? )
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Here's big cheers to Diana for giving this a go!! 103 miles from Havana to Key West, a minimum time of 60 hours, and she's 61 years old!!
Go Diana, GO!!!!
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In the NPR interview with her, she was stuck on the words to "Horse with no name" as she swam, and of course NPR played the song as the segue...
Her last name is deeply appropriate. (see what I did there? )
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Saving for the next one...
Here is a link to the live time map to track her progress: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2011/...yad/index.html
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She had to stop after 29 hours.
But still; I kept thinking; "I slept all night and she was swimming", "I ate breakfast, went to work, had lunch, kept working, finished my work day; and she's still swimming", "I'm getting ready for bed... and SHE"S STILL SWIMMING". An unbelievable accomplishment.
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I just saw the interview they did with her on CNN. She apparently was having severe asthma attacks, which she'd never before had in the water, for 11 hours. Then she was having shoulder issues as well.
The thing that's kind of sad is that she said she doesn't plan to try again.
Amazing effort in any case.
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I heard on NPR that she hit unexpectedly high currents which took her off course. With an event this long she'd go through every available source of energy no matter what she eats. When she reaches the end she'd be drawing energy from her muscles, basicly eating them
There's no room for error or to go off course and "oh, I'll just swim another 20 miles or so ..."
Amazing effort! Can we get her here to post to the "Is there anyone here over 60?" thread? Has anyone read her training regime? Astounding.
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Too bad! I still think she's amazing, and I'm glad she's safe.
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She's going for it again!
Diana Nyad begins new attempt at swim record
I just read that. I hope she makes it this time.
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I hope she does also! We actually went to the same prep school(granted a few decades a part) but it makes me want to support her even more, not only for being a strong female athlete but for also sharing the same school pride that I do.
Still swimming as of the last update. She had to come out of the water last night because of a jellyfish sting to the face - so if she completes the swim, it'll go into the record books as a staged swim rather than non-stop, but it would still be a record.
Go Diana!
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Go, Diana, go!
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Looks like she ended her 3rd attempt
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