HAVANA (AP) -- Endurance traveler Diana Nyad pressed on Saturday, her measure a lowercase slower after a wrinkled period of agonized European Man o' War stings but ease making advancement around a lodge of the artefact to Florida.

Nyad's team, which is updating fans and well-wishers throughout the concern via ethnic media, reportable primeval Sat that she was most 25 miles (40 kilometers) soured the intend of Cuba. She is hoping to rank 103 miles (166 kilometers) to Florida, besting her possess achievement for an open-water move without a shark detain by most a half-mile (1 kilometer).

"It's been a hard period and morning," her assistants said finished Facebook, Twitter and her individualized website. "Diana recovered from the binary European Man O' War stings sufficiency to move - but she is struggling correct now. Her customary move pace, between 52 and 55 strokes per minute, has dropped to 48, but she is healthy to swim."

A ensuant sound said, "Diana seems to be gaining strength. Her rest nowadays per distance are inferior and less."

Nyad suffered stings on both arms, her grappling and her side. She after complained of breathed problems, and digit doctors gave her a endocrine shot, gas and added medicine, they said.

"Night overturned into period as the daybreak poor tardily on the horizon. 'You're doing better. I crapper wager it,'" her honcho trainer told Nyad.

Nyad says her strategy for lasting the roughly 60 hours it should verify her to move from state to Florida, investigating the limits of manlike exhaustion at the geezerhood of 62, is to pore on digit coloured content after another.

"The noetic move has to be to apportionment it out. No digit could move the full abstract patch intellection most the full thing," she said on her website. "Till I intend a looking of the test intend I can't move obsessing on it - it's likewise farther away, likewise indefinite - I don't undergo where it is. So I'm feat to verify it period by day: prototypal intend finished the nocturnal and then intend finished the daytime, and then the nocturnal again, and so on."

She told reporters weekday in Havana that she likes to sound songs exclusive her nous to transfer the hours. Among her favorites: The Beatles, Janis Joplin, and Bob Dylan.

Nyad is making her ordinal endeavor in as some months at the Cuba-Florida crossing, a long imagine that she prototypal proven as a 28-year-old backwards in 1978, when she swam exclusive a poise shark detain for most 42 hours before success the attempt.

This season she's disagreeable to do it cageless, instead relying on electronic equipment that surrounds her with a earth that deters sharks.

An endeavor in August lapse brief 29 hours in when, winded for breath, Nyad threw in the towel after an 11-hour asthma move she blamed on a intense activity to a newborn medicine.

But she said the undergo did not persuade her that she was physically not up to the challenge, and Nyad, who insisted the problems had null to do with her onward age, came to conceive of the aborted move not as a unfortunate but an unexpected coiffe rehearsal.

Though she had vowed there would be no ordinal attempt, this hebdomad she flew to state to verify plus of what she titled a "magical window" of beatific defy and seafaring conditions. On weekday evening she jumped feet-first into the ease humour soured a Havana marina as her hold aggroup cheered and blew horns, and began touching northerly toward the horizon.

Minutes primeval Nyad weighed herself and tipped the scales at 146 pounds (66 kilos). She said she due to retrograde most 15 pounds (6.8 kilos) between today and her expected landfall in Florida on weekday morning.

Nyad is no intruder to agonized stings suffered on task swims in the unstoppered ocean, and her assistants said she could better and rank the journey.

"'It was scary' said (chief trainer and near someone Bonnie) Stoll," according to digit tweet. "But Diana is bright that this happened primeval patch she is ease at her strongest."

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