Downstream

stop until you get out at the
other, you don’t do it in
stages wearing a wetsuit. A
wetsuit is a rubber ring.’ The
Thames is on a par with the
Channel, he says, perhaps
even more difficult because
most of his Channel swims
are around fifteen hours, and
the logistics of a Thames
swim are considerable. He ate
and drank ‘whatever was
handed to me, it would be
high-carb drinks now, back