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Bonnie attempted this record title to prove to her kids and to others that you can do anything you put your mind to. She frequently contributes to charitable causes and participated in this attempt in part to raise money and awareness for Victoria’s Voice.
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Someone were to ask me what I would be doing
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If I had all the time and energy and money in the world, it would be stand-up paddleboarding
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And I know that may sound wild for most people, but I'm a small business owner
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I have four kids, been married almost 19 years, and we're busy
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So blocking my schedule to do something that I so simply love is near impossible
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This venture was really quite a great. gift for me. For almost 30 consecutive days, Bonnie Gothel's from the USA spent roughly nine hours
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on the waters of Lake Norman, North Carolina. She was attempting to break the Guinness World Records
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title for the greatest distance paddleboarded in one month. For me, if I'm not doing something
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I feel I'm moving backwards or staying still. So the doing of this activity every single day
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kept me excited. It kept me going. It kept me motivated. I welcome the
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the pain, I welcomed the challenge, bring on the rain. It was mine to conquer
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For me, it became meditative. Many times I was lost in my paddle
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And that was when my speed was the highest. So I had to change my thinking all in one day
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I had to go out there, enjoy nature, encounter weather, physical challenge, and then come
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back in and work on the data So switching gears like that was a huge challenge And then when coming in I needed to take care of my body and work on muscle recovery because I only have a few hours before I have to go
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to sleep and wake up and do it again. I really enjoyed waving at people that would come out
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and wave to me or talk to me. Okay, I met the cool people on the leg. There they are
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You take a passion and a desire to make a difference and you pair that up with an idea of how far can you take something
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I suppose that's when you end up with a world record. I will say my name is Chloe McCartee
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I'm from Guinness World Records. I've had the pleasure of adjudicating dozens of events
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This was the most ambitious record that I could have been a part of
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paddle boarding up to 29 miles a day, much to nine hours of her time every single day
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four hours in the morning, five at night. But this was a logistical and also very intensive from the documentation side
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Let alone physical, mental, spiritual. So on that note, I am pleased to announce that Bonnie Golod's
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you have achieved 520.20.4 miles. Blackwater in one month for female. Congratulations
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So this adventure of a lifetime has truly been one of the biggest gifts of my lifetime
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Of my lifetime
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