A decided athlete opens on the strange and sometimes frightening side effects he endured after swimming 40 miles for 21 hours in a row.
“When I went to the end, I was concerned about closing my throat.” Rebecca Manna twice national swimmer from the United States and ex-Olympic, I talked to People In an interview published on Saturday, June 21.
Mann, who missed a place in the 2019 American Olympic team, became the first person to swim the Tri-chanals crossing of 40 Mau Nui miles, the place among the Hawaiian Islands of Maui, Molokai and Lanai, that same year at the age of 21.
During swimming, Mann, now 27, says he experienced severe swelling that affected his ability to breathe. At one point, he sank that the nostrils closed and could not breathe his nose.
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“It wasn’t a big deal to me because it was like“ OK, it’s okay. I can breathe through my mouth, “he said at the exit, adding that the severe swelling began nine hours in swimming.” But then my uvula began to hang -in my tongue. “
In addition to swelling – Mann said to the dam that it was difficult to swallow for hours after swimming, he also experienced extremely lucid dreams after completing the challenge.
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“I start to have these dreams where I am hooked on the ocean and scared, but they are not afraid at the same time,” he said. “It’s really weird. I’m always in the middle of the ocean trying to make swimming, and I’m not in good enough, and there are a lot of sharks around me and I don’t have a boat by my side, and it’s really strange.”
Years later, he now details what he learned to spend 21 hours in a row in the ocean in Tiktok, with the delight of his nearly 10,000 followers.
“The first is that the hours were mixed,” says Mann One Talok video It has been seen more than 219,000 times. “There is a five -hour period of which I have no memory. I just remember that it was 3 in the morning and suddenly the sun got up.”
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She continued: “ The second thing was that my elbows were going to hurt and my elbows had never done me before swimming, so I was really strange. The third was that I was going to ‘Wrecking Ball’ by Miley Cyrus that hooked me on my head for more than 10 hours, which was interesting. I like this song, but not enough for 10 hours. ”
When asked if he would swim in the ocean for 21 consecutive hours, the athlete did not hesitate to answer “yes”.
“When I go through a challenge, this is my best self,” he told the interview. “I think I teach a lot about myself and reminds me of who I am, who I want to be, and I think it is the biggest lesson; just to go through all the bad parts of life.”
