After seven hours, the Gatorade made my stomach hurt. To drink I started with 2 liters of water, then switched to water mixed with Gatorade. We decided on 3 air fried potato wedges, half of a coconut almond Kind bar, a few gummy life savers and a ½ peanut butter bar.
We did this to figure out what to eat and drink and how much I needed eat and drink to keep up my energy. Closer to the Crossing, I did two paddles an 8 hour and a 12 hour to test equipment and nutrition. Most of my training was done during the pandemic. I mostly did this by myself with some help from my coaches. I did this to build endurance in my legs and lungs. If I wasn’t paddling or doing muscle training, I was running 5ks around the house along with skateboarding, rollerblading, and cycling.
Some of the things I did every day to train to get ready for the crossing was 100 pushups, 100 Russian twists with a 10 lb medicine ball, 100 squats, balance board workouts, and paddleboarding at least 4 days a week for a total of about 2,000 miles. The crossing was on June 27, 2021, starting at 12:45 A.M. I want to help find a cure for her and everyone in the world who has cystic fibrosis and the crossing was one way for me to support that. I wanted to show her how much I cared for her by dedicating so much time, energy, and love in preparing for the crossing in her name. I’ve watched her live her life with CF every day and I wanted to do something for her to show her how much her life means to me. I met Hannah when I was 10 years old and she has CF. The reason I wanted to focus on that was because of my friend, Hannah. I wanted to do a crossing that focused on raising money for cystic fibrosis. This inspired me to do a crossing of my own. In 2018, Victoria became the Guinness World Record holder for being the first female soloist to cross from Havana to the Key West on a paddleboard as well as the fastest. She was my paddle boarding coach at Special Olympics and she is still coaching me today as well as competed with me. I met my coach, Victoria Burgess, when I was 12 years old. I’ll be starting volleyball in the Spring! I’ve been in Special Olympics for 6 years and I’m currently involved in swimming, paddle boarding, alpine skiing, basketball, track and field, open water swimming, and surfing. The first time swimming for Special Olympics didn’t go so well because I was anxious and frustrated since the other kids seemed faster than me but my mom told me that it was just the first day and that after time I would get better with hard work and dedication. That’s when she found swimming in Special Olympics Florida.
However, my mom wanted me to get involved in something big that would benefit me in a healthy way and to help me socialize. I was just thinking about normal stuff like drawing and school. Before that, my life was blank and I didn’t know what I could do with my life. My first sport in Special Olympics was swimming when I was 10-years-old.
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