I Swam The Amazon

Posted by paperchase on August 24, 2009

by Sharon Van Geuns

That’s 3,274 miles, swimming 10 hours a day for 66 days.. on two bottles of wine a day *or 196,440 lengths of your average pool.

He’s middle-aged, his ample belly bulges over his Speedos… and he thinks drinking two bottles of wine a day keeps him in shape.

Swimmer Martin Strel would be the first to admit he makes the unlikeliest of athletes.

But the 55-year old hard drinking Slovenian just happens to be the greatest endurance swimmer in the world… ever.