The “Young Guns & Cinnamon Buns” English Channel Relay Team successfully swam on 27th August 2022 in a time of 12 Hours and 48 Minutes. The team was a six-person relay including 12-year-old Hugo Tribbeck, a student at Bishop Wordsworth School in Salisbury and a member of Salisbury Stingrays Swimming Club. Hugo is raising funds…
So as it stands it’s one-nil to The Sea, or to the English Channel to be precise, but I’m ready to even the score. Three years ago I tried to swim from England to France but my attempt was unsuccessful and I was pulled out after twelve and a half hours suffering from Swimming Induced Pulmonary Edema (SIPE).
I’ve had an enforced break from training lately as I’ve been under the weather with a cold. It’s important not to train while you’re ill but to concentrate on getting well. If you try and train before you’re fully recovered you’re likely to prolong recovery and ultimately lose even more training time. Another golden rule…
I aimed to do my longest training swim around five weeks before my Channel window opened. Not all prospective Channel swimmers do an 8 or 10-hour swim but if you can pull one off it’s a great confidence booster.
I’ve swum to Bat’s Head before but always from Durdle Door so it was nice to get a new angle on it. Only a month to go before my Channel window opens and I decided it was time for an 8-hour duration swim.