Is that EJC having a snooze on the boat 
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too bloody right…
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That’s amazing - well done that man. The swim bit must be epic.
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Aw - must be quite nice with the boat rocking about
it’s all pretty epic…
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as long as you are not throwing up…
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How does one train for a 21 mile swim?
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over several years…
Here you go. His account is arch2arcjourney
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Wow, that’s something to watch.
Getting into the black sea at 3am… yikes
And he looked properly cold after the swim. And starting the swim with mangled legs- whole thing looks like an incredible physiological challenge.
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Even more impressive to watch it pan out. Well done to all involved 
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I don’t have all my notes with me…but he swam on 47 of the 52 weeks of specific training - with business trips and a sinus problem stopping it being every week (and that’s actually quite a chunk of training to miss.
The final six month target was 550k with 120k in the final four weeks. I think we got up towards 500k and the last four weeks were 26.7/28.5/29.3/35.4k. some of these weeks included back to back training swims at Dover…
the traditional channel swim training calls for 1 x 10 hours swim, 1 x 8 hour swim, 2 x 7 hour swims, 5 x 6 our swims and 6 x 5 hour swims. We did most of these (the 10 in Windermere) but some were back to back to accommodate the run and bike training.
He swam a fairly narrow line and covered 43k on his crossing…
*before the taper
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For his long training swims did he have a guy in a boat alongside for re fueling
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you mean me 
For some…i kayaked at spring lakes, at Dover he swam loops and we rented a boat at Windermere with me covering the first couple of hours in the kayak (before the boats available)
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Lol
EJC
I’ll employ you
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Yes I’m drunk
I met up with my pal Jim
You can’t not get drunk with him
It’s impossible
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Was too tired to watch last night but will give it a spin tonight 
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nope, you can’t not never get drunk with him…
different range of charges for that…
Just watched the video this evening. What a superb achievement, At the end of the run I thought he was destroyed. At the end of the swim I thought he’d never stop shivering. But he only went and bloody did it. 
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