HAVANA (Reuters) - Marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey, a 49-year-old grandmother, will try to break her own world record by swimming 103 miles (166 km) from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage in what she admitted on Thursday was a daunting challenge.
Palfrey, who was born in Britain but lives in Australia, planned to start her swim across the Florida Straits on Friday morning from Havana's Hemingway Marina and hopes to arrive somewhere in Florida within 40 to 50 hours.
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