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distraction that it makes it
hard to complete the
challenge you have in front of
you.’
Getting started each day
was the most difficult thing
and he ‘ate everything I could
find, sandwiches, bread,
fruit’, as well as consuming a
litre of high-carbohydrate
drink every half-hour. He had
one person paddling in a
canoe next to him, whereas
for the Channel part of his