It's been a long day (well, longer for Tony), but it's time to pack up and say good night!
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Shutting down & packing up
It's been a long day (well, longer for Tony), but it's time to pack up and say good night!
He's done!
After an awful four hours he actually made up all that time and finished five minutes ahead of his plan at 17:00:54.
I do have some pix I'll post later.
700 m to go!
Dave Lyons in the foreground, Tony in the back left, being paced by Andrea on the right.
32 km! 20 miles! 3/4 of the way!
(Tony with "his" towel.)
Tony hit 32 km at 12:12 (5:13 p.m. PDT). Pretty amazing to be swimming for over 12 hours. I had the BlackBerry video camera going, but when Rhonda asked if he wanted to know how far he'd gone, he said No. He doesn't want to know how far he's gone until he's done.
He now has "only" 12.2 km to go. Rhonda is thinking he can do 2 km/h, so that'll have him finish about 10:30 p.m., about 26 minutes later than his plan.
I'll admit he's looking a bit dispirited to me, or perhaps a bit angry. But he's pushing on. An interesting point his brother Dave made was that he'll soon be in Ironman territory. At 17:30 total time he'll have spent far longer swimming than he's ever done anything endurance-wise.
He's still being escorted by the Hyack teenagers.
Consistency
Tony's stroke & breath counts have not significantly changed since he started 10 hours ago: 19 or 20 strokes per 25, 7 to 9 breaths.
Undiscovered country
Tony's just finished 26 km, 62% of the journey. He did it in 9:39, and has 16.2 km left. He's dropped a bit of time; he's now "only" 33 minutes ahead of schedule.
Rhonda says we're not going to update him until he hits 30 km. :-)
Why are we here?
Tony's swim is in aid of the CKNW Orphans' Fund. And you can donate here.
Tony just cleared 25 km. He's now 36 minutes ahead of schedule. He looks great, to be honest. We signal his last 25 for each 500, and when we did that, he yelled, "Well, it's about time!" He seems to be in great spirits.
He's 59% of the distance, and has 17.2 km to go.
20 km
In 7:12. He's about 8 minutes ahead of schedule, but he's probably going to adjust his work in this hour and the next. His plan called for 3 km and then 1 km, but my reading of what he told me at the 20-km rest is that he'll be happy to do 4 km between the hours.
He's done 47% of the distance, and has 22.2 km left.
19 km
In 6:41 or so. He's now about 17 min up on his schedule.
He's done 45% of the distance, and has 23.2 km left.
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