By Vladimir Brezina
She did it!!
Blackburn Challenge, 2014. The full story is here.
A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Victory.
Copyright
Wind Against Current by Vladimir Brezina and Johna Till Johnson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Authors
Vladimir Brezina
... has kayaked the waters around New York for over a decade in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He comes originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and has lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He is a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.Johna Till Johnson
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.Recent Comments
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Killa!
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Thanks!
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I got goose bumps reading this! Yay, Johna!!!
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Thank you! It was fun.
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Well done!
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Yes, very cool – awesome! I remember you post of the grueling challenge!
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Yes, Vlad occasionally recycles…. especially photos for stories he thinks need more reading :-).
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I read that first race post and had goose bumps through the whole thing. That was definitely a VICTORY. :-)
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wow! what a victory! awesome!! :)
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Congratulations!
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Thanks! (on behalf of Johna)
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Gripping story telling I was there with you never competed over such a distance but I know the peaks and troughs the driving yourself on and how the mind challenges reality – really enjoyed reading it
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Thanks, Scott! As far as mind challenging reality goes, this was still pretty easy—only a few hours, in daylight. We’ve had trips where the mind did challenge reality, literally, as in our Everglades Challenge trip, over 8 days without a lot of sleep. The hallucinations were quite intense…
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