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KUSA – She did it.
In 67 hours and 16 minutes, Sarah Thomas, from Conifer, finished a 104-mile swim and broke her own record.
Thomas slowly hobbled out of Lake Champlain, which is between New York and Vermont, around 1:30 a.m. local time, and 3:30 a.m. in Denver – about five hours ahead of schedule.
She promptly sat down for the first time since Monday, when she began her nonstop swim.
“That’s a really long way to swim,” Thomas says in a video, posted by her family, adding that all she needed after getting out of the water was to “not move for a minute.”
Thomas says the last three hours of the swim were hardest, as she went through weeds and see grass in dark, shallow water.
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