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    Wild swimming with Martin Strel in Slovenia

    rokurBy rokurAugust 27, 2011Updated:August 27, 20111 Comment1 Min Read
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    Ha ha ha, funny intro to this article on The Guardian:

    “You are going to meet Martin Strel?” a woman says to me in Ljubljana.

    “You know who he is?” I ask.

    “Yes, of course. He is famous in Slovenia … But a lot of people here think he is a bit weird.”

    That doesn’t surprise me. I know about Martin’s epic river swims, which have included passing dead bodies in the Yangtze, and I’ve seen the film Big River Man, which charts the bouts of drinking and madness that punctuated his 66-day progress along the Amazon in 2007.

    “But weird in a funny way, right?”

    “No,” she says. “Just weird.

    I watched the “Big River Man” documentary myself, and I too think that he is weird :-)

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    Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Swimming Association. Likes to run :-)

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    1 Comment

    1. strel swimming trips on August 28, 2011 11:08 am

      martin rocks, weird or no weird, he did it, once and for ever. legend! the doc is well done, its not just swimming, great entertainment.

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