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One determined athlete opens up for the strange – and sometimes scary – side effects who suffered after swimming 40 miles for 21 hours straight.
“When I got to the end, I was worried about my neck closing,” Rebecca MannA two-time US National Champion swimmer and former Olympiad, have said People In an interview announced on Saturday, June 21.
Mann, who narrowly failed to secure a spot on the 2019 US Olympic team, the first person ever to swim the three -mile Mau Nui channels, the spot between the Hawaii Maui Islands, Molokai and Lanai, the same year at the age of 21.
During the swimming, Mann, who is now 27, says she experienced a severe swelling that affected her breathing ability. At one time, he became so swollen that his nostrils closed and could not breathe through her nose.
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“That wasn’t a big deal for me because I was like, okay, it’s right. I can breathe through my mouth,” he told the outlet, adding that the severe swelling started about nine hours into the swimming. “But then my uvula started to hang down on my tongue.”
As well as the swelling – Mann told the outlet that it was difficult to swallow for hours after she swimmed – she also experienced very clear dreams after she completed the challenge.
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“I’m starting to have these dreams where I’m just stuck in the ocean and they’re scary, but they’re not shocking at the same time either,” he explained. “It’s very strange. I’m always in the middle of the ocean trying to make the swimming, and I’m not in good enough shape, and there’s a bunch of sharks around me, and I don’t have a boat beside me, and it’s really strange.”
Many years later, she now details what she learned from spending 21 straight hours in the ocean on Tiktok, to the satisfaction of her almost 10,000 followers.
“First is that hours are going to blend together,” said Mann One Talok video That has been seen more than 219,000 times. “There’s a five -hour period of which I have no memory. I remember it was 3 and and then suddenly the sun was up.”
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He continued, “The second thing was that my elbows were going to really hurt and my elbows have never hurt from swimming before, so that was very strange. The third thing was that I was going to get a ‘break a ball’ by Miley Cyrus stuck in my head for over 10 hours, which was interesting. I like that song but not enough to get it on for 10 hours.”
When asked if she would swim in the ocean for 21 hours in a row again, the athlete did not hesitate to answer “yes.”
“When I go through a challenge – that’s my best self,” he explained in the interview. “I think it teaches me a lot about myself, and it reminds me of who I am, who I want to be, and I think that’s the biggest lesson; just go through all the bad parts of life.”
