{"id":13665,"date":"2012-01-12T01:07:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=13665"},"modified":"2012-01-12T01:07:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T16:07:38","slug":"200738","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=13665","title":{"rendered":"Maldives Biathalon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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mati is a triathlete and having her on this trip pushes me to exercise
\nmore. i wake up at 6 am and she’s already ran around the island 4
\ntimes. i go to the gym, she’s already leaving. i’m taking an afternoon
\nnap, she’s swimming. so when we talked about swimming to the island
\nacross the channel, there was no turning back. we planned it last
\nnight. i only had 2 drinks and had an early sleep because you have to
\nbe 100% to do something like this. see the island off to the right?
\nit’s pretty far, and the raging current going out to see in the deep
\nblue water doesn’t make it easy. once you start and go off the ledge
\ninto the deep blue channel, your on your own. you can’t see bottom so
\nhave no feel of what the current is doing. i kept on looking up and
\nkept on seeing myself getting pulled way off my mark. kind of scary
\nbecause if you miss the island, your gone!
\ni get up at 6am, watch the sunset, and study the ocean for an hour. i
\nsee the current going to the left at about 5 mph. i know with the
\nincoming time, it’s just going to get stronger and stronger. mati gets
\nthe kayak from the other side of our island and we meet at 8:30am. we
\nmake a plan. i swim to the island, she paddles the kayak escorting me
\non the side so no boats run me over. we do the opposite on the way
\nback. i jump off the deck of my villa and i start swimming. i aim for
\nthe middle of the island so the current won’t suck us out to sea. i
\nswim there and end up at the far left side of the island in about 25
\nminutes. i get on the kayak as it’s mati’s turn to swim back. we were
\nsupposed to walk on the beach back down current and start back. but in
\nthe maldives, you can’t just pull up to an island without permission.
\nand we didn’t have permission. so we leave the wrong side of the
\nisland. not a wise choice. mati swimming and i start paddling the
\nkayak back, i can see the current getting stronger. mati swims and
\nswims as the current gets stronger and stronger. a speedboat with 2
\nstaff from the other island speed our way to see what the heck we were
\ndoing out there. they ask me if i was ok, i said “yes, we’re ok.” the
\nlook at us like we are stupid. inside, i was thinking, “we better make
\nit back!” i could see the current sucking out to see faster and faster
\nso i got a little worried. it was pretty dangerous coming back but
\nsomehow we finally make it back in little over an hour. it felt pretty
\nrewarding, it felt, energizing, and it felt challenging.
\nwe have lunch and mati looks at another island on the opposite side and
\nsays, “hey, let’s swim to that island tomorrow.” i’ll have to think
\nabout that one. haha.<\/p>\n

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mati is a triathlete and having her on this trip pushes me to exercise more. i wake up at 6 am and she’s already ran around the island 4 times. i go to the gym, she’s already leaving. i’m taking an afternoon nap, she’s swimming. so when we talked about swimming to the island across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}