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-==== Brandon Nelson'​s 24 hr Record Paddle on Lake Padden 151.87 miles Aug.21-22, 2013 ====+<<​races:​wed_niter_bay_2013|Previous Story^stories:​bellingham_stories|Story List ^stories:​after_24hr_paddle_2013|Next Story>>​
  
-//(Whatcom Paddlers had only a bit of description of the deed on their blogmaybe because so many of the local paddlers were already so familiar with the effort)//+===== Brandon Nelson'​s 24 hr Record Paddle ​on Lake Padden 151.87 miles Aug.21-222013 =====
  
- {{youtube>​iDAJowiUsm0?​start=98}}+//(Whatcom Paddlers had only a bit of description of the deed on their blog, maybe because so many of the local paddlers were already so familiar with the effort - read the [[:​stories:​after_24hr_paddle_2013|next post]] also from Brandon. For a little more adventure read about Brandon and Heather'​s [[:​stories:​nelsons_lake_baikal_2003|circumnavigation of Lake Baikal]] in 2003)// 
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 [[http://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=TilmFOHby0s&​feature=youtu.be|2nd video (from the very end of the monumental paddle)]] [[http://​www.youtube.com/​watch?​v=TilmFOHby0s&​feature=youtu.be|2nd video (from the very end of the monumental paddle)]]
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 The record was a long time coming. Nelson’s first attempt came in May, 2006. Seven hours into that effort, his custom-built,​ 23-foot carbon sea kayak cracked behind the seat. He had to paddle a heavy spare kayak for the next 10 hours while his crew worked on repairs – and still he notched 146.9 miles, eclipsing the previous record by nearly 10 miles. The triumph was a tribute to his mother, a former hospice worker who had died of ovarian cancer just weeks earlier…."​ The record was a long time coming. Nelson’s first attempt came in May, 2006. Seven hours into that effort, his custom-built,​ 23-foot carbon sea kayak cracked behind the seat. He had to paddle a heavy spare kayak for the next 10 hours while his crew worked on repairs – and still he notched 146.9 miles, eclipsing the previous record by nearly 10 miles. The triumph was a tribute to his mother, a former hospice worker who had died of ovarian cancer just weeks earlier…."​
  
-and at the end of the feat -+and at the end of this 2013 feat -
  
 " I was loaded into a waiting van, then shuttled just a minute or so to an ambulance before being taken to the hospital. I would be treated for 3 days with “Rhabdo” – a spike in large molecules entering the bloodstream from broken down muscles, that can lead to kidney failure if not treated with IV fluids."​ " I was loaded into a waiting van, then shuttled just a minute or so to an ambulance before being taken to the hospital. I would be treated for 3 days with “Rhabdo” – a spike in large molecules entering the bloodstream from broken down muscles, that can lead to kidney failure if not treated with IV fluids."​