So after the sad beginning to 2025, the hard work returns with 5 of the 13 athletes lining up for this year under my charge…
eeeeek…
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Are you going to be crossing the channel with any of them again? 
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yep…several this year…
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Brutal Claire 2nd July
Jake Taylor 13th July
Lyndsey Blair 6th September
Reka Udvardy 18th September
John Philips 9th October
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This is brilliant news, congratulations to Paul and the whole team 
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I am behind in my reporting.
A successful team made it to Paris last week and before I’d time to collect my thoughts, we were called forward early for Brutal Claire.
Although she has a number of ultra successes behind her, the channel has been a big hurdle. But here she is again, departing London at 21:02 Saturday evening for the run down to Dover.
All went well through the night but a nagging Achilles made running difficult and the heat turned it into a tortuous walk. The last 10 hours were pretty grim and for safety, I ran walked with her.
But we are here waiting for the boat with great conditions for a solid swim to Calais.
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You still waiting Jon?
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nope…been and gone…Claire felt unwell 10k into the swim and sadly we had to pull her…
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That’s a shame 
Doing the first leg in the heat that we’ve had down here must have been physically hard
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yep…i think after about 15 hours she was suffering from heat stroke and probably hadn’t recovered by the swim…
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Hello, been a while since I have been on here as I’ve been unfocused on anything specific for a while. Anyway, I registered my interest to have another attempt at Arch 2 Arc in 2027 - here’s hoping I can get a slot as I’d love to do this for my 50th birthday. Looking forward to getting back into it. Tons of stuff I can do better this time around
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cool…good luck!
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the videos I see, it looked quite choppy as well; Was the time in T1 because of the poor conditions, or a planned extra long break? I’m assuming at 12hrs he got a bit “lucky” (maybe not the correct word) with tides a beat the final turn that would have added hours on.
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It was almost a perfect day…
time in T1 was in part starting 20 mins early, but also running faster than planned…
he was given a hurry up with an hour or so to go to save another 2 or 3 hours…
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This just popped up on my facebook feed
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the boy done well…
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EJC busy again 
Edit: no he’s not had a sex change and kudos to her!
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