The Idiot’s most viral “athletic” moment in 2024 might have been a 15-minute pre-Olympics swim in the Seine in Paris on July 4. But he also managed to walk 4.77-million steps with his iPhone in his pocket.
Here’s where he did it a stroke and step at a time to prepare for more in 2025.
The Idiot walked to swim at a distant pool in near-freezing temperatures in Paris on the last Sunday in 2024.
The Idiot’s most viral “athletic” moment in 2024 occurred after he swam in the Seine before the Paris Olympics.
Some of The Idiot’s favorite hikes in 2024 were in the Buddhist kingdom of Bhutan in October. (Photo: Kim Devoe)
After swimming in the Seine in Paris, The Idiot swam in the Mediterranean Sea in Antibes in July. (Photo: Sonia Stratte-McClure)
Photo ops on the hike up Table Mountain in Cape Town in February tended to be a little more dramatic than the walk to a pool in Paris. (Photo: Aimee Friederich)
The uncrowded outside pool at the YMCA in Redding at 6 a.m. definitely beat the crowded indoor pools in Paris.
The Idiot bought a copy of the detailed GR75 guidebook before he launched the 50-kilometer hike around the perimeter of Paris in August.
The Idiot prepared to swim in the Seine, in the same location he took a dip in 1976 for a magazine cover story, on July 4 at 11:11 a.m. (Photo: Luke Stratte-McClure)
The Idiot walked 4.77 million steps (that’s 3,344 kilometers or 2,077 miles) with an iPhone in his pocket in 2024.
The Idiot completed a training swim in Paris in June that prepared him for a dip in the Seine before the Paris Olympics.
The Idiot hiked over 35-kilometers solo around the 600-kilometer GR1 that encircles Paris on February 17.
The idiot swam past the Notre-Dame Cathedral when he took a dip in the Seine on July 4, 2024.
Here’s how The Idiot’s steps looked during a week in London in late December 2024.
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