Ep. 830: Swimming Across Every Lake in the Lake District - Danny Longman
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Danny is an anthropologist and adventurer who is building a reputation for setting ultra-endurance world records across a range of sports. After competing at a national level as a sprinter, footballer, canoeist, and rower at both high school and university, Danny discovered adventure when he attempted to row across the Atlantic Ocean as a 22-year-old. Since then, he celebrated the completion of his Ph.D. at Cambridge University by spending 6 months cycling from Mexico City (Mexico) to Ushuaia (Argentina), set 7 official Guinness World records for exploration when he rowed across the Arctic Ocean, and set 2 new ultra-endurance swimming records for swimming. Today, he’s talking about his latest swim, when he set a new FKT of 41 hrs 7 minutes for swimming the full length of all 13 publicly accessible lakes in the English Lake District.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today we're talking to Danny Longman for something he did recently, which was swim. |
| 0:23.0 | All the public lakes in the lake district in the UK swimming the length of them. |
| 0:29.8 | 13 public-accessible, publicly accessible lakes. That is the fastest known time, by the way. |
| 0:35.9 | He did it faster than anybody, 41 hours, seven minutes, and it's like 45 miles of swimming or something. |
| 0:42.1 | It is insane what he was able to do. But that's not the only thing he's done. He's done a polar row through the Arctic, going all over the place, doing some incredible scientific stuff. |
| 0:55.3 | And I didn't mention he's also extremely academically minded, getting a PhD from Cambridge |
| 1:00.9 | University. |
| 1:02.1 | But he's also academic, but also a very avid adventure. |
| 1:06.3 | So get this. |
| 1:08.0 | After he finished his PhD at Cambridge, he spent six months biking from Mexico City to |
| 1:14.8 | Ushwaya, Argentina. |
| 1:16.2 | So literally two-thirds of the Pan American Highway, he needs to finish that other part |
| 1:21.5 | from Mexico City to Prudo Bay, Alaska to go to the top of that. |
| 1:26.0 | But anyway, he does so many cool things. |
| 1:28.1 | He has a couple of Guinness World Records for exploration, having road across the ocean, |
| 1:33.2 | has a couple ultra-endurance swimming records as well. |
| 1:35.8 | So it was a pleasure talking to Danny. |
| 1:37.5 | Very cool stories coming at us, I believe, from the Alps, |
| 1:41.0 | a very great example of balancing, career, and adventure. So that's something I'm always |
| 1:45.6 | trying to balance, but Danny's killing it. So let's go ahead and jump in. |
| 1:54.8 | Hey folks, welcome to the podcast. You heard a little bit about Danny and the intro, but I wanted |
| 1:59.9 | to welcome him to the show. |
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