{"id":8525,"date":"2016-04-03T03:36:30","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T03:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2016-04-06T08:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T08:46:38","slug":"guy-cohen-24-hours-open-water-swim-blog1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/guy-cohen-24-hours-open-water-swim-blog1\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Cohen 24 hours non- stop open water swim from the heart challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 2, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guy Cohen, My 24 hour \u201cSwim-From-The Heart\u201d Challenge:<\/p>\n<p>It is now less than 2 months away from the swim date. The mileage is piling up and workout time is increasing. In March I have swum a total of 170 km (106 miles) most of it open water swims. My longest single swim distance in March was 22 k\u2019 \/ 7 hours. In April I will reach 225 k\u2019 (140 miles), longest swim will be an overnight 40 k\u2019 swim (25 miles).<\/p>\n<p>Last week was the first time I felt my shoulders, I knew I need to swim WEST and work on my swimming technique especially in long distances.<\/p>\n<p>Since two weeks ago the word has spread around like a \u201cBush Fire\u201d. The story about my swim reached thousands of people around the country and abroad. It was completely overwhelming for me, the amount of messages from so many who want to embrace and to encourage me.<\/p>\n<p>I think a lot about the cause. I am thinking a lot about Netta my daughter. She died instantly from Sudden Cardiac Death. We had no time to help her, I couldn\u2019t save her. What if by this challenge we can help to save future loss of lives?!<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LRuS7C7EUs8\" width=\"560\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nOn one side this is increasing the pressure: I am on a mission now, I must not disappoint all those who are following. It\u2019s not my personal challenge anymore, it\u2019s much bigger now. But on the other hand \u2013 it is a huge moral support. The challenge is so big, so difficult, it is enormous; I definitely need this kind of support.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8517\" src=\"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233-1540x1024.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0233\" width=\"794\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233-1540x1024.jpg 1540w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233-420x279.jpg 420w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233-738x491.jpg 738w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DSC_0233.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Friday morning a few dozen of swimmers, some of them I barely knew, all gathered at our beach for a swim together. We had formed a huge Heart shape of swimmers in the water, sending out a message from this wonderful community of open water swimmers: Please help us to raise up the funds which are needed to fight Sudden-Cardiac-Death, and help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rambam.org.il\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Rambam Hospital.<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_EYdblEzCCE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/swim-from-the-heart-may27-haifa-open-water-swim\/\">Read more about the swim&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8520\" src=\"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/\u05dc\u05d1-\u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd-\u05e9\u05dc-\u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd.jpg\" alt=\"\u05dc\u05d1 \u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd \u05e9\u05dc \u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd\" width=\"816\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/\u05dc\u05d1-\u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd-\u05e9\u05dc-\u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd.jpg 918w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/\u05dc\u05d1-\u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd-\u05e9\u05dc-\u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/\u05dc\u05d1-\u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd-\u05e9\u05dc-\u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd-768x458.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/\u05dc\u05d1-\u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd-\u05e9\u05dc-\u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd-420x251.jpg 420w, https:\/\/swim-west.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/\u05dc\u05d1-\u05de\u05d3\u05d4\u05d9\u05dd-\u05e9\u05dc-\u05e9\u05d7\u05d9\u05d9\u05e0\u05d9\u05dd-738x441.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guy Cohen,<\/p>\n<p>Shefayim, Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2016 Guy Cohen, My 24 hour \u201cSwim-From-The Heart\u201d Challenge: It is now less than 2 months away from the swim date. The mileage is piling up and workout time is increasing. In March I have swum a total of 170 km (106 miles) most of it open water swims. My longest single swim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Guy Cohen 24 hours non- stop open water swim from the heart challenge - WEST Swimming Technique<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/swim-west.com\/guy-cohen-24-hours-open-water-swim-blog1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Guy Cohen 24 hours non- stop open water swim from the heart challenge - WEST Swimming Technique\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"April 2, 2016 Guy Cohen, My 24 hour \u201cSwim-From-The Heart\u201d Challenge: It is now less than 2 months away from the swim date. 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