#63.1 – Running or Swimming For Your Life, Fish Man and Treebow Grows




That One Sports Show show

Summary: <p>WYR: Run 350 miles non-stop or swim 100 miles non-stop. </p> <p>Toss Up: Brock vs. Sam pass yards. (In honor of me going to the game) </p> <p>NFL Pickem: anh1608 winning 37-26, with RaiseTheBooty in last place at 27-36</p> <p>Blue Jays win in extra innings over Orioles<br> Tim Tebow invited to Arizona Fall League (where it’s actually a bit more competitive), 6 prospects from each team make up 6 total teams and play against each other starting next weekend and through November. After batting only .285, how will he do against top pitching prospects.<br> Vin Scully calls his final out</p> <blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><p><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2016/10/04/sarah-thomas-lake-powell-marathon-swim/">Colorado swimmer Sarah Thomas is attempting an 81.8-mile swim on Lake Powell. Follow her progress live.</a></p></blockquote> <p><br> Swimming the English Channel, 21 miles</p> <p>In what may be the longest open-water solo swim ever, Australian swimmer Chloe McCardel completed 78 miles between two islands in the Bahamas in 42 1/2 hours.<br> Despite jellyfish bites and sunstroke, the 29-year-old reached the island of Nassau early Wednesday morning.<br> Slovenian MArtin Strel swam the Amazon River, commencing on 1 February 2007 (at age 53), finishing 66 days later on April 7, 2007.[3] This was a record-breaking distance of 5,268 kilometres (3,273 mi),[4] longer than the width of the Atlantic Ocean. He had escort boats that were prepared to pour blood into the river to distract meat-eating fish such as piranhas.[5]<br> American swimmer Diana Nyad prepares her jump before starting her fifth try of swimming across the Florida Strait, on Aug. 31 2013, in Marina Hemingway, La Habana, Cuba<br> October 2005, American Dean Karnazes started out on a 350-mile run through Northern California, finished without sleep and in 80 hours and 44 minutes, averaging 13 minutes per mile.</p>