Mill Valley Woman Breaks Record for Fastest-Ever Swim From Farallon Islands to SF

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/27/mill-valley-woman-breaks-record-for-fastest-ever-swim-from-farallon-islands-to-sf/It’s not just the fastest swim ever for a woman, but the fastest swim for any swimmer ever to complete the dangerous 30-mile trek from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco, though the record is not yet certified by official record keepers. It has been almost exactly ten years since the first time that a woman swam from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco, a 30-mile, shark-infested journey in ice cold waters that is an even longer trek than swimming the English Channel. Now, ten years later, a woman just broke the record for the fastest swim ever across that distance. The Chronicle reports that 32-year-old Mill Valley resident Catherine Br