{"id":365712,"date":"2026-06-18T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365712\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:44:09","slug":"bay-area-swimmer-hopes-to-swim-entire-coast-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/365712\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area swimmer hopes to swim entire coast of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/28c647jvtqnxst1d.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area woman hopes to swim California coast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/28c647jvtqnxst1d.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area woman hopes to swim California coast\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image\" data-v-62bd84fd=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/video\/fmc-hd7hm4n43u8a3m1h\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area woman hopes to swim California coast<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">Catherine Breed, 33, will begin her grueling journey at the Oregon border on July 1. She plans to swim more than 900 miles, finishing sometime in October at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BERKELEY, Calif. &#8211; A Bay Area swimmer is preparing to make history by attempting to become the first person to swim the entire coast of California.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Catherine Breed, 33, will begin her grueling journey at the Oregon border on July 1. She plans to swim more than 900 miles, finishing sometime in October at the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Breed is a former NCAA champion swimmer at UC Berkeley and is currently recognized as one of the premier open-water athletes in the world. She already holds record-setting swims around the circumference of Lake Tahoe, the Farallon Islands, and from the Golden Gate Bridge to Half Moon Bay.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The upcoming four-month expedition will require immense endurance. Breed says she will swim for more than five hours a day. For the duration of the trip, she will eat and sleep entirely on board a support boat alongside her crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Catherine Breed<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/berkeley\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bay Area woman hopes to swim California coast Catherine Breed, 33, will begin her grueling journey at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[389,764,1184,7,9,8,100,127,1181],"class_list":["post-365712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-alameda-county","tag-berkeley","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365712","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=365712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}