Downstream

swim]. We threw sticks into
the water near Lechlade, Nic
ran a hundred metres and we
timed how long it took for the
sticks to get to him.’
They calculated the river
flow was three kilometres an
hour and ‘estimated it would
take around a week for me to
swim the Thames, possibly
ten days. So my entire team
took fourteen days’ leave and
we hired a barge. I was
working in London at the