picked up the tide and shot
through central London,
passing Big Ben at 7.40 a.m.
He reached Gravesend,
having swum front crawl the
entire way, in seventeen
hours twenty-five minutes,
three hours earlier than he’d
estimated. And was he
wearing a wetsuit? ‘Wetsuits
are for wimps,’ he laughs, ‘I
just had trunks, goggles and a
hat. Endurance swims you
start at one end and you don’t
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