Re-invention Through Butterfly, Making Up For Lost Time Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Word has it that Dan Provjansky is going to have a second bout with the Red River of the North in Andy Magness‘ annual Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test (END-WET), a 36-mile (57.9 km) marathon swim from rural North Dakota […]

Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Swimmers are coming from all over the place to participate in the 36-mile (57.9 km) Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test (END-WET), but none may face the challenge of 56-year-old Dan Projansky. Swimming 36 miles of butterfly down a slowly meandering river where the current flows downstream up to

Dan Projansky just seems invincible. He certainly just cannot get enough butterfly in. After completing the inaugural 27-mile (43 km) Extreme North Dakota Watersports Endurance Test or END-WET all butterfly last year in 14 hours 30 minutes, Projansky was back in the Mighty Red River between Grand Forks, North Dakota and Oslo, Minnesota this past