Downstream

‘There was no real euphoric
time, it’s just hard, you’re in
water up to sixteen hours a
day, you just take half an
hour at a time. I knew I had
ten months left of the rest of
the expedition, swimming the
Thames was only a small
part. I tried to enter a
meditative state because if
you allow yourself the
indulgence of thinking about
things aside from the swim it
really becomes such a