Looks like Fredrick might have done the 1000km in a day. Early at this stage so not a lot of details just Facebook. Amazing effort and commitment if it's confirmed.
Not sure Kato, he was 11 minutes over for 1km over. If that Coros result is accurate, he'll be a few kms short in the 24hr period.
But amazing anyway!
He probably switched the watch on before carrying his gear down to the water for a hundred meters or so. Clipping that off may well leave him with 1000 km in 24 hours. But if he'd submit it to get an official record, they'd certainly clip it down to less than 1000, using rather questionable statistics. But regardless of all that, it's an amazing record.
When your GPS track looks like an Etch-a-Sketch that you've filled in the screen by going back and forth so much.
Since 2020 this guy try regularly to windsurf 1000km in 24 hours. This time he was really near, have to stop to change kit because of wind change and one longer stop (half an hour) because of moon disapear under cloud.
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He probably switched the watch on before carrying his gear down to the water for a hundred meters or so. Clipping that off may well leave him with 1000 km in 24 hours. But if he'd submit it to get an official record, they'd certainly clip it down to less than 1000, using rather questionable statistics. But regardless of all that, it's an amazing record.
Why would anyone use "rather questionable statistics" to take away a record from someone?
The guys who oversee records do it as volunteers as I recall. Why would anyone take on that job just to take records away from people on questionable statistics, and if they are questionable why wouldn't someone challenge them and win?
This says 941km in 24 hours. He sailed on for and extra 90 minutes to get to 1000km.
www.lindependant.fr/2024/07/24/podcast-incroyable-record-941-kms-en-windsurf-sur-24h-a-port-la-nouvelle-12100457.php?fbclid=IwY2xjawERu7NleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdE-Z0ZBfDlO7feQ3A292d-pW7mlm4SllFwq9iAUfjYEVLDa8-6KgBeHsw_aem_atocfygTDMBckmKjaZY38w#lz016eo2pxmmilbco69
Big distance is super inspiring to me.
Obviously it is a great feat of physical endurance, but the mental part must be something else.
A very tough mind must be needed to keep pushing and hang in there for this mind boggling distance?
I often think about you Kato going all night at LG and wonder what that must feel like, epic!
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Big distance is super inspiring to me.
Obviously it is a great feat of physical endurance, but the mental part must be something else.
A very tough mind must be needed to keep pushing and hang in there for this mind boggling distance?
I often think about you Kato going all night at LG and wonder what that must feel like, epic!
Yes, the right mindset is the key and that's the bit that keeps me interested. The km is just a way of measuring it. Sailing at LG at night is epic and the last one had no moon at all so you got the Milky Way in all its glory. Magical experience
Select to expand quoteMobZ said..
Big distance is super inspiring to me.
Obviously it is a great feat of physical endurance, but the mental part must be something else.
That's what I was thinking. Climbing off a board after sailing pretty much 24 hours straight and then saying, "how about another 90 minutes?" Ninety minutes when you are physically wiped out must feel like forever.
