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swam to Ramsgate and then came day seven, ‘the LAST day of this epic swim taking him to Dover. After ...
miles from the end.’ I can barely bring myself to ring him, imagining how crushed he must feel, but whe ...
crashing over him, especially from Herne Bay to Ramsgate, but ‘there was very little wash from boats in ...
nice, however. ‘There were a couple of places where it was really nasty; there were huge bands of seawe ...
water either side, and I thought “yeah, I’ve swum that, brilliant!”’ While he wore a wetsuit for the Thames ...
twelve-hour swim, but at seven hours my pace had slowed. I was told my position in the water had changed an ...
seven and a half hours my health was more important than raising money for charity. It was a painful dec ...
than anyone else, but ‘now my wife has my feet nailed firmly to the ground, although I’m still swimming and ...
her around ten days before her swim is scheduled to start. Born in Johannesburg, she moved to the UK when she ...
ends of the earth,’ she says, ‘but that’s not true, because we have epic terrain on our doorstep. When yo ...
running 400 miles from Big Ben to Land’s End, and finally a 1,000-mile cycle to John O’Groats. ‘I’ve had m ...
‘When you think of Great Britain you think of the Thames.’ Adventurer and endurance athlete Ness Knight. As for where she wil ...
her swim, ‘I have an enormous map of the Thames on my living-room wall; I will possibly start at Cricklade ...
email me and say “thank you, I’m inspired, I didn’t think it was possible because it’s all men out there.” Ther ...
what I’m doing and they blank me and move on, they think it’s a joke. I do get dopy questions. It’s s ...
the 1870s and Kellerman in the early 1900s both felt swimming was an ideal sport for women and one of the fe ...
she can swim the Thames then other women can too. The main challenges she foresees are loneliness and river ...
then she found out about the by-law. ‘I was only aware of it after I’d decided on my triathlon journey. I ...
on 20 August she was struck by a bout of ‘Thames tummy’. A couple of weeks later I read that she success ...
except in the online triathlon world. While Andy was interviewed by the press and appeared on local TV, Ness w ...
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