They used to tell a lot of athletes, you know, oh, you know, you get a certain age and it's all downhill.

Well, it's downhill if you're going to be sitting on the couch all day watching TV.

But if you're active, the sky's the limit.

You just go for it and enjoy it.

And I think that's the key is enjoyment.

I've enjoyed this.

Pat Gownfield. And I think that's the key is enjoyment. I've enjoyed this. Pat Gallant Charette is a 73-year-old record-breaking marathon swimmer.

Technically speaking, a marathon swim is anything over 6.2 miles.

But Pat swims are usually two to three times farther than that. She's set nine

Guinness World Records for being the oldest woman to swim across bodies of water like the English

Channel, Lake Ontario, and Lake Zurich. She's been swimming marathon distances for more than two

decades and has even been inducted into the International Marathon Swimming Hall of Fame.

Unlike a lot of record-breaking athletes, Pat doesn't use a fancy fitness tracker, and she

doesn't have a crazy training schedule or an intensive nutrition plan. Instead, she keeps things

pretty natural. I'm Shelby Stanger, and this is wild ideas worth living, an REI Coop Studios

production brought to you by Capital One. Pat Galant Charette has lived in Maine her entire life,

and she has the accent to prove it. Listen to how she says words like yards and shark.

We only had a short distance to go a couple hundred yards, but at the halfway mark, my brother

screamed shock. When she's not swimming, Pat loves working in her garden, beekeeping, and tapping

her own maple trees. She has two kids, three grandchildren, and she has two kids, beekeeping, and tapping her own maple trees. She has two kids,

three grandchildren, and she worked as a nurse for much of her life. Pat didn't take up open

water swimming until she was in her 40s. She started at the beach near her home, which brought

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