{"id":341689,"date":"2026-06-01T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341689\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:05:07","slug":"catherine-breed-to-swim-entire-900-mile-california-coast-with-hopes-of-becoming-the-first-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341689\/","title":{"rendered":"Catherine Breed to Swim Entire 900-Mile California Coast with Hopes of Becoming the First Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

California Alum Catherine Breed<\/a> will embark on a new open water swimming journey, swimming the entire coastal length of the State of California, with the hopes of becoming the first person ever to do so.<\/p>\n

Breed has been no stranger to the open water and success in that realm; just last year, Breed set a new distance record by swimming the circumference of Lake Tahoe in consecutive days<\/a>, ultimately\u00a0totaling 60.91 miles in five days.<\/p>\n

This swim will take much longer than the five days for Lake Tahoe, rather a multiple-month challenge.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Sports Illustrated<\/a>, Breed explained that she has been planning this since 2023 and that many people don\u2019t realize how daunting the swim itself is.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot one person has said, `I think this is impossible,\u2019 even though I recognize it may be impossible,\u201d Breed said in the interview. \u201cIt\u2019s actually really funny\u2026 They\u2019re like, `Oh, cool.\u2019 I don\u2019t think they recognize that it\u2019s 900 miles, four months and I\u2019m actually going to be swimming in the ocean. Their brain doesn\u2019t quite compute.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plan is to swim four to six hours each day until she reaches the southern border of the state, just west of where the Tijuana River meets the ocean. She will be supported by Matthew Sessions, an open-water swimmer and captain of a 52-foot-long sailboat that will sail alongside Breed during her long swims.<\/p>\n

Breed is no stranger to the California coastline, growing up in Pleasanton, and currently residing in Mill Valley. She admitted her fondness for this coastline, having grown up swimming, surfing, and sailing in these waters.<\/p>\n

The swim for Breed will be done out of pure wanting, and she says she has a hard time \u201carticulating exactly why\u201d she wants to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a hard time articulating exactly why I want to do (this). There\u2019s not like I have to do this to overcome some ginormous challenge in my life.\u201d Breed said. \u201cIt\u2019s there to do and I\u2019m physically capable of doing it. I have people on my team to help support. I hope that in the journey I\u2019m inspiring people along the way. It seems like a really amazing thing I get to do in my life. This is the time to go after something big and wild and crazy and audacious.\u201d<\/p>\n

The event will also serve as an opportunity for Breed to engage more people with the ocean and raise awareness of conservation needs. Along the route, Breed and her team will stop at coastal locations and run \u201ccommunity pop-ups\u201d that also give local conservation groups a platform to share their stories.<\/p>\n

Her journey is set to begin around July 1, where she will jump into the Pacific Ocean at Crissey Field State Park.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn Day 1, I think the emotions . . . I\u2019m hoping they\u2019re just joy. Gratitude, joy and it feels like we\u2019re starting out on this really fun adventure.\u201d Breed said in an interview with Sports Illustrated<\/a>. \u201cIf I\u2019m feeling that, it\u2019s a testament to the planning and preparation I\u2019ve put in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Alum Catherine Breed will embark on a new open water swimming journey, swimming the entire coastal length…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,140735,140736],"class_list":["post-341689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-catherine-breed","tag-matthew-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}