@Enduroman Arch to Arc

Is that EJC having a snooze on the boat :laughing:

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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 :clap:.

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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 :slight_smile:

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 :+1:t2:

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nope, you can’t not never get drunk with him…

different range of charges for that…