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    River’s Edge

    Apr 30, 2020 4 minutes
    By Pam LeBlanc

    TEXAS WATER SAFARI

    Postponed until Sept. 12-16. texaswater safari.org

    I rolled my eyes when my friend suggested I enter the Texas Water Safari, a 260-mile paddling race from San Marcos to the coast that’s fraught with logjams, snakes, and hallucinations. I guess he figured that since I’ve backpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail, swum around Manhattan Island as half of a two-woman relay, scuba dived with hammerhead sharks, and run a naked 5K, I’d be eager to paddle to utter exhaustion.

    “No way,” I said, when he first brought it up years ago. “Stupid. I don’t do sleep deprivation, and who paddles that far nonstop for fun?”

    Well, I do, apparently, because I agreed to participate when a couple of veteran

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