Name: Katie Spotz Is The Youngest Person to Row Across the Atlantic Ocean
Uploaded: 2021-04-15T17:26:27.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Katie Spotz Is The Youngest Person to Row Across the Atlantic Ocean' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-15. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Katie Spotz Is The Youngest Person to Row Across the Atlantic Ocean' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-04-15. Transcript available.

So you start off with this first mile and then you eventually work your way up
to all these
challenges and then eventually you decide I am going to row across the Atlantic
Ocean by myself.
Yeah so okay so the row. I was on a bus right and I was like talking to someone
sitting next to me
and we were talking about endurance challenges and I was a stubborn know-it-all
19 year old so
of course I was like oh I've heard it all I know people climb Mount Everest I
know people
sail around the world I know about all these things and then he mentioned his
friend rowed
across the Atlantic and that was like that just stopped me in my tracks like
what like people can
do that like I never it was so far beyond anything I ever imagined and um I
think like with endurance
what's so cool about endurance is like at a certain point everyone's body hurts
right so what makes
endurance like a really cool experience is seeing how the human will and how
like determination and how
a strong mind like you it's a requirement because everyone no matter how fast
or slow you are is
going through that that mental wall and so um yeah I found out about ocean rowing
and I was really
captivated not only by um that mental component because like if you do a
marathon you go home you take your
shower you um you have people cheering you on but but ocean rowing you're
stripped raw of that and
and something about that was intriguing to me because it's like okay how can
you dig deep internally when
you don't have the you know the finish line um you know whatever uh party and
like the swag and the
people and the nice cozy bed and I just kind of I liked that idea of like being
so stripped raw that you
have to dig deeper than you ever would if you didn't have all those other
externals so yeah I found out
about it on a bus I went home and went and googled everything I could about
ocean rowing and it was at a
time where I did my first ultra marathon so it was like a hundred kilometer run
or 62 miles and it was
again one of those moments where I was like I never thought I could do that and
my body proved otherwise so
what are all the other things that I'm saying I can't do but maybe I can so it
was really that
information at that particular time where I was like really open to the idea of
wow maybe it is possible but
um it was a matter of like researching everything it wasn't like oh I gotta do
this it was oh I gotta find out
everything because I mean if someone told you someone rode across the Atlantic
wouldn't the first thing be like
is that really true like so I mean that was the first place I I looked like are
people legitimately doing that
how much time was it between you finding out about it and you actually doing it
two years that's not that
long no did what kind of training did you do um so like physical training like
compared to doing like
I've trained for like iron mans and then trained for adventures like physical
purely physical to like
these more adventure type things and like training for an iron man 90 is like
what you're doing in the gym
for ocean rowing and for like the more adventure type um athletic pursuits I
would say that like
90 was like the logistics like you could be the most fit person in the world
but if you don't have a boat
what does it matter like so I spent most of my time just like sorting out
through all the logistics the
sponsorship getting the gear training with the gear but um yeah like my
training priorities for rowing
and ocean were um injury prevention so I did a lot with like strengthening my
core and my lower back
and then on the weekends is when I would do like a six to eight hour row
training row just to get more
to get used to the boat and the equipment more than anything else but you would
go on a lake lake erie
yeah yeah now how fast do you go on this boat uh like maybe I would go like 30
miles a day no no
how fast like per hour uh three two or three miles two or three miles per hour
so basically like the speed
of walking yeah so um my boat was a 19 foot row boat it was like 400 pounds but
once it was fully loaded
it was a thousand pounds so it did have like a sliding seat yes okay so um I I
had a sliding seat so that
meant that like my legs and my back were the main source of like power but um I
think the best like
you mean a sliding seat seat like a rowing machine exactly so like so that
helps you it it means that
like the power was coming from the most powerful parts of my body not my arms
so some people assume
like oh it's just your upper body it's just your arms but in fact it's more
your legs and back but
um so this thing's going two or three miles an hour correct and how many miles
is the atlantic ocean
how many miles yeah three thousand so oh my god don't think about it just don't
even think about it oh
my god that's so far that's so far it was the worst reaching the halfway point
just because like how long
did it take you the whole trip 70 days 70 days that's not that bad when you
think about it how far you went
yeah I would say so yeah I anticipated it would be 70 or 100 days oh my god
that's a big gap
I had 30 days of extra food and oh that's good yeah yeah was anybody monitoring
you uh I had like a
tracker so people could like look online and see where I was um but there wasn't
like a follow boat or
anything like that oof what are those nights like it was pretty amazing yeah so
of course the stars were
amazing like shooting stars and just like yeah breathtaking and then what
surprised me like I
thought it was like wait is this real am I hallucinating but the the I think
the most stunning
part was actually looking in the water because they had like um this type of
glowing plankton so it was
like a phosphorescence so sometimes I would see things glowing in the distance
and then all around my boat
anytime my oar hit the water like I would see all of that and wow yeah like I
was so busy planning the
trip and the logistics that I didn't know like what wildlife I'd see and so
that was definitely
like a pleasant surprise to see that must have been really crazy yeah have you
ever seen no no I've
seen it on video so you can find a video of it um what is it called it's bioluminescence
but there are
like Puerto Rico is probably the closest place to here that has really good bioluminescence
too like
yeah so that it really looked like that like that bright blue yes that's
amazing very trippy
that is so wild yeah so I could put my hand in the water and um did you take
any photos or film it
I did have some uh film and uh yeah this sometimes I no like you can't really
take good I mean yeah I
didn't have really good bioluminescence photos um look at that shore that's
insane
now you said the stars stars were amazing yes like how amazing I mean no light
pollution at all right
yeah I mean I I mean it in some ways it felt like I was just like living this
national geographic
experience of like you know I had dolphins come right up to my boat I had um
yeah yeah like uh I
think it was like the fourth way mark I was like I want to celebrate and um my
way of celebrating was
very limited it was like oh am I gonna have two Snickers bars like there's not
really anything other
than what I had but this pot of dolphins surrounded my boat and we're doing
like flips and tricks and
like really right at that moment that I was reaching it so yeah the the
dolphins and sharks and birds and
um I even had like fish following right underneath my boat like because barnacles
would grow it was like
I on on the side of my boat I would um scrub them off but sometimes they would
just keep following
my boat so every time I I named them ed ed and eddie but I had like three jurados
that would keep
following and birds that came on my boat and wow yeah catch new episodes of the
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