Downstream

swim. ‘We assumed it would
quickly get deep enough to
swim and so did the locals,
but, boy, were we wrong.’
She then waded to Lechlade;
‘the weather had been bad,
there were lots of fallen trees,
my wetsuit really suffered’,
and so day two meant six
miles of reeds, sludge and
water ‘like an ice bath’.
As with other Thames
endurance swimmers, Ness
had to battle with sensory