are you happy to go straight across with
you want to stop there happy - there to
go if you want to go there you going to
go great
go pre
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okay so since we announced the Great
British swim it's gone absolutely
ballistic for me the great British limb
is almost leading by example and I'm not
saying that everybody should go and swim
around you know the country that they
live in I'm not saying that but all it
is is a hope it gets people to just
think outside of their comfort zones
wherever it's doing their first
triathlon first 5k first 10k
it doesn't matter any sport just try
something new this year I launched my
first book it was called the world's
fittest book and I just think if you're
gonna call your book that you better do
something pretty impressive to back it
up
almost leading by example and that's
what I've loved now about the great
british swim that is turned into
something where everyone's asking
questions about the limits that they'd
probably put on their body what they
thought they were capable of just rode
back from Torquay I met Matt and Suzanne
for the first time welcome aboard that's
here that's home mission control area in
here which is where all the steering a
navigation and everything goes on mind
your head on the way down here is the
sitting space rather than a fan Wow we
can get cozy it may feel a bit tight but
actually it's oh now this is cool you've
been out in the elements all day you
actually do want somewhere where you can
snuggle up a little bit so we can get
you know we can get the full crew in
over debrief we're gonna we can we can
chill a bit and you know look at chance
to UM nervousness okay follow me this is
Posie
oh wow so what that were just kind of
flipping flips down in a second to show
you but that's also a really good
feature for you if you get exhausted or
tired and just can't
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every bit as epic as they were described
to me in the sailing community but for
now I'm gonna head down to Margate gonna
do some final checks I'm gonna prepare
to set sail Great Britain we are now
heading down to Margate we're gonna see
the boat got some more media stuff to do
and then I'm gonna do a life Facebook
show you to vote three hours about three
hours away from start of the Great
Britain swim crew still packing we're
almost there now just basically just any
space on the bow any anywhere we can per
like just supplies porridge oats like
bars just nut butters we're just storing
anything anywhere there's a hundred days
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she's got massive medallion it's
intimidating somewhere buzzin like the
mayor's just offered me hot cross buns I
think that's like the key to the city is
that when they call if I've just been
given the keys the hot cross bun city
I'm gonna be done in like stitched me up
but as well and truly stitch me up
everyone set their what Mar gates been
amazing I'm kind of a little bit sad to
leave but I have them kind of stones on
my return journey so yeah a little bit
sad to leave but also keep to get going
great very swim this is my said to be
signing out see you in Dover
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do you know what it just feels really
nice just on the first in just got out
feeding make a really good progress
already eyeing up Ramsgate boom don't be
alarmed
that is duct tape on my neck I'll
explain later
about 20 minutes ago have the most like
beautifully cinematic view of rocks like
swimming into the blizzard over
is he struggling to see where he's going
at the moment yeah he must be Taylor yes
Ross got a nasty bit of tape on his neck
struggling a little bit just to cite us
on this side where is he now he needs to
go over that time I didn't follow his
clothes I can't see him you've got a
dragon
he's swimming the wrong way so you got
to call him in Bianca no
we're going on like
being completely wrong direction there
for them struggling alibi visibility and
transiting the court with this fog and
also
Ross
talking a little bit with
so we're just going to
play on the same side forever we're
going to the
for this time a bit of arrest
drink down in pre hydrate exams later
next time six on six off
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compare me to swimmer and
which everybody's across the attention
are you happy to go straight across or
do you want to stop they're happy to
they're to go if you want to go haha
which is a basically to the end of the
wall is back to Minnie
and push yeah you're all right yeah yeah
you're gonna go great go for it
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follow me
you need it
it's going well okay I know it doesn't
look like here I have duct tape on my
neck the team were amazing I was
panicking a little bit I may be
completely honest with you I was really
really excited to see the White Cliffs
of Dover saw them and I think as much as
I really really wanted to crack on and
as much as we've got an island to swim
around it was really nice to actually
share that with the team and I turned
around he was taking pictures as much as
this is sort of a race against time and
and the island and everything like that
I just think it's really really really
important to take in those moments and
and that was already one of my favorite
ones when I was talking about the great
British name I didn't realize how much
it would really capture the imagination
of everybody around the world
I thought Britain would really get
behind it but what was really
interesting is a lot of the sailing
community they know how bad the tides
the currents the weather how
unpredictable it is all around Great
Britain so when they said you're
swimming around Great Britain it wasn't
the distance that they were referring to
it was just the unpredictability of the
weather and at the time I was like yeah
I know it's fine it's the summer though
isn't it very naive and it was like
mother nature is almost sort of going
there you go taking the view alright
enough now three in summary it's been a
good start despite the fact I'm doing a
video diary with duct tape on my neck
thank you guys that's it for this week's
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