Downstream
swimming logbook I Love the Thames promises ‘proper swimming, a current that whisks you along and amazingly ...
swimming during the day and sleeping on the accompanying barge at night. ‘Rivers define their people,’ he says ...
raised in anger six feet above you, you think: “Oh my God, this is dangerous.” But the support canoe would b ...
countryside. When you are in the river you might see nothing except the water and the bank, and then suddenly ...
that’s the first place you don’t scrape your knuckles on the ground when you try to swim’. Born in Ilford, ...
Moth biplane, and when it came to the Thames, he says, ‘I did it because no one had done it before. People’ ...
Southend. In the process he raised £20,000 for the Anthony Nolan Trust. Andy says the non-tidal Thames is very ...
burped and spluttered and carried on. Then I went to that night’s accommodation, ran a hot bath, and threw up ...
overnight accommodation, whether I’m pacing myself too fast or too slow, whether the escort boat is doing what i ...
towards you or if it’s behind you. There are signs. As a boat gets close you wait for a bow wave. The f ...
will get a slap on the forehead with the first little bow wave and then you have to raise yourself up ...
was eating about 10,000 calories a day and still losing weight.’ The year after Andy’s swim Lewis Pugh also ...
to England in his mid- twenties, and after reading International Law at Cambridge worked as a maritime lawyer in ...
the year before he’d been to Spitsbergen in the Arctic. Returning to England he was shocked that the threat t ...
London, and Lewis hoped his swim would draw attention to climate change and show that people didn’t have ...
swim]. We threw sticks into the water near Lechlade, Nic ran a hundred metres and we timed how long it took ...
time, I could only train for forty-five minutes three times a week, but because it was flowing nicely I th ...
to swim. Finally, Lewis entered the water near Buscot Lock, a couple of miles downstream from the Round Hou ...
to set their sights on the Thames, for a waterway that stretches over 200 miles is ideal for anyone who eith ...
The Walsh brothers (Mark on the left and Richard on the right) share a laugh at Boveney Lock in the summer of 2009, after four d ...
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