After nearly three years of preparation, Omaha native Taryn Smith is rowing solo across the Atlantic Ocean in one of the world’s most demanding endurance races.
Smith is competing in the World’s Toughest Row, a 3,000-mile race from the Canary Islands to Antigua, where athletes cross the Atlantic Ocean in rowboats. Forty-three teams from 20 countries around the world launched Dec. 14 from La Gomera in the Canary Islands and are expected to spend 40 to 60 days at sea.
Smith’s journey into ocean rowing began after she read an article in Vogue magazine about the Latitude 35 women’s team, which broke a world record rowing across the Pacific Ocean from Monterey, California, to Honolulu…