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And meet the real wonder woman. She cycles, she runs, she swims. She rowed the Atlantic solo, setting records all the way. From CBS News world headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. Good evening, everyone. We’d like to welcome home another Katie. Katie Spotz who made history on Sunday becoming the youngest person and the first woman to row alone across the Atlantic, more than 2800 miles. As Michelle Miller tell us, that’s not bad for someone who says she was the worst rower on her college team.
“I’m always looking for new ways to challenge myself.” 22-year-old Katie Spotz has cycled across the country, run through the Mojave Desert, and was the first to swim the length of the Allegany River. “Was this a piece of cake?” But nothing compares to this. “Oh! Not at all. This was the hardest by far.” Rowing the Atlantic Ocean for 70 days all by herself. An idea from a guy she met on a bus in Australia. “He mentioned that his friend rowed across the Atlantic Ocean. And I thought it sounded like a good idea.”
“When I see my child doing this adventure, it’s everything against my nature.” But on January 3rd, Katie Spotz hopped타다 the board and cast off from Senegal, West Africa. She ended up in George Town, Guiana. There would be no watch boat, only a beacon표지 등and a radio. “Well, it was kind of easy to be motivated in that, once I was out there, there was nothing else to do but row.” “I was lucky to have some friends along the way.” A pod of dolphins작은 떼의 돌고래.“They even were swimming right underneath and doing flips and all kinds of tricks. I felt like they were giving me my own personal show.”
Katie was the show for a half million fans online. And when she got into trouble off the coast of South America, “There were several times I thought my boat would capsize.” They tracked her 400 miles detour우회로 around dangerous swells너울. But she did. And in the process, she raised $75,000 for a group supplying clean drinking water to people worldwide. “More than anything, it’s often ourselves that holds us back from doing things, so I think it’s important to question that and challenge that.” Even if you’re not facing an ocean alone. Michelle Miller, CBS News, New York.