Today Catherine Breed—UC Berkeley alum, Bay Area marathon-swimming force, and connoisseur of extreme swims, has completed the SE Farallones to the Golden Gate swim under classic marathon swimming rules (no contact, no suit aids, no music). In calm conditions Breed Catherine Breed became the 7th swimmer and the 4th to swim from SE Farallon Island to the Golden Gate Bridge in 13 hours, 54 minutes- shaving almost 4 minutes off the previous record held by Joseph Locke in 2015.
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Our science team member Lily Byrne is psyched to run and is recruiting runners and supporters at the San Francisco Half Marathon to raise money for water analysis, harmful algal bloom monitoring and disease tracking of sharks in the San Francisco Bay.
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