Can’t believe it’s already been 3 weeks since my last English Channel swim ? I feel so LAZY ??
Had my happy face on when I reached shore 3 weeks ago… I was so happy to be able to:
? stop swimming so hard, especially as I was so low on physical energy
? stop worrying about the impending tide change which would have elongated my swim time (and therefore effort)
? stop unofficially racing my compatriot for 10hrs (I came home 18min ahead).
…We had a good laugh about it afterwards ? turns out he was racing me too!
Straight after a marathon swim the first emotion I feel is not joy, celebration or excitement… it’s relief!! ??… As Captain Matthew Webb said:
“NOTHING GREAT IS EASY”
The other emotions come later…??
(…oh! Did you notice that my Zinc smiley face stayed on my bathers for the whole 12hrs ???!)
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