Feat Of The Week (2)

I was gratified to read this week that Bulgarian, Yane Petkov, has regained his Guinness World Record, swimming 3,380 metres in the Macedonian Lake Ohrid.

While for someone like me to whom any form of exercise is anathema, this seems a prodigious distance but in the natatorial world this is no great shakes. What made it special was that Yane’s hands and feet were bound and, to boot, he was enclosed in a sack.

It took him three hours, face-up and feet first, to complete the distance, although he had aimed to complete 3.5 kilometres.

Yane had held the record before, swimming 2,030 metres in 2013. But the record was only his for three months, the crown being snatched from him by Indian Gopal Kharvi, who completed 3.07 with his hands and feet bound. Kharvi swam head down and forward and didn’t get into a sack.

Different strokes for different folks, I suppose.