June 17, 2016- Lori King, an open water marathon swimmer and member of CIBBOWS, completed a 36.5 mile swim around Bermuda in 21:19:45. She began the swim at 12:00pm local time on June 15th at Elbow Beach, and completed it on June 16th 9:19:45am at Elbow Beach.
Lori is the second solo swimmer to complete this feat (Sean O’Connell was the first in 1977 at 43hr 27min), and there was one relay group that completed the swim staged over two days. The swim was set up as a 50-person relay, ten years ago, marking the 30th anniversary of Sean O’Connell’s circumnavigation swim. Lori’s time is the fastest of all three completions.
Due to the weather conditions hitting the Island on Thursday and Friday, her original start and swim days, the swim had to be moved up almost 24 hours to Wednesday. At the start of the swim, the wind was at Lori’s back, but as she rounded the northeast tip of Fort St. Catherine’s and continued on to Pompano (a 16 mile stretch), she had to contend with two-three foot waves and strong headwinds.
Lori kept strong and consistent in her stroke-rate and fought through the swells and the 12-14 knot winds all along the stretch of the north shore in order to complete the epic swim. Lori fought hard to make it through these conditions thanks to her training, which included completing the 2015 seven-day, 120 mile 8 Bridges Hudson River Swim, amongst endless hours of pool and open water training.
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