Went for a dip in La Manche this evening at Weymouth. Here’s Mrs FT with #3 about 20 metres out from the shore, with a small cargo ship in the background.
Shoot me now, the thought of swimming across that body of water is utterly terrifying.
Got so much respect for people who do it.
Apologies for trotters x10
yep…you have to be a bit of a fruit cake not a fruit thief to want to do it…
I was at a swim meet yesterday with Mrs FB and one of the swimmers didn’t do so well in the 1500m Free. Comment “was feeling a bit tired”. They’re training to swim the Channel and had done a 6hr swim the day before ffs. A “bit’” tired…..
They will need a fair bit more than that…
Sean swam 935k over 37 weeks of training at an average of 25k a week alongside the running and swim training…
We look for at least 1 x 10 hour, 1 or 2 x 8 hour, 2 or 3 x 7 hour, 5 x 6 hour and 6 x 5 hour swims…
I guess 8 minutes at Bowleaze Cove won’t cut it then? (Non wetsuit)
Sea temp allegedly 20C
I’m aware of what’s needed - have a few friends who have swum the Channel (one has 3 x including a double as part of a relay)
but this isn’t just swimmin g the channel…which is why it is so feking hard…
a real tough gig for Kevin…hot days but a chilly night on the run down to Dover…a tough swim with a problem shoulder that had developed in the training…which led to a really hard bike with torn shoulder muscles…
Thankfully Paul was observing…
Standby…standby…#44 Mayank Vaid goes for the double tomorrow…you can track him here: https://enduroman.com/live-tracking
Oh wow, good luck to him and the whole team. Must be mentally very challenging, knowing you’ve got to do the whole thing again after celebrating your arrival in Paris. I presume once he starts moving again, it’ll be business as usual.
Crazy!
Interesting article…
"The swimming leg of the challenge: a near 13-hour slog across the English Channel from Dover to Cape Gris-Nez near Calais, during which the Hong Kong-based Indian ultra-athlete would burn up to 7,000 calories.
His weight-gain method? Eating lots of ice cream and drinking a bottle of wine – just before going to bed."
I think alot of people are doing that 
i do that religiously,…
That’s 2 x 181 miles in 29 hours 34 minutes for Mayank Vaid…the run from Dover to Marble Arch, London and back to Dover begins tomorrow afternoon…then it;s fingers crossed that we get a swim window on Wednesday…
So the double is run-swim-bike-bike-run-swim?
I guess you can’t swim from Calais to Dover?
the double should be swim - run - bike
and correct, you can’t begin a swim from France..
however, we have been waiting for a swim window and have had to do the bike and now the run first…which will make it so much harder…
Run began at 14:00 today…
well…that was tough…a good 20 hour pace until about 2 marathons in…but it was bloody cold (relatively speaking) in kent last night and the pace dropped, finishing at Marble Arch in a little under 24 hours. At least a 28 - 30 hour run back would leave little or no energy for a double swim…and so Mayank called it a day in London…
He’s done enough
