I can see the lights so so clearly the
tide the currents just have different
ideas it's a bitter taste of going back
after that swim and and saying you know
it was a DNF but I had not finished
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so guys we are now well and truly at the
business ends they'll be great bricks
with basically room which is really nice
lovely harbour tucked up in beds but
there Matt woke everybody up because
we've been gifted another weather window
basically Mori fir which is this huge
bay up at the top of Scotland we need to
get over that because really wouldn't
we're still in the north of Scotland and
we don't want be we need to get south
where where the winds are a little bit
more favorable the same as the weather
and so Matt's work everybody up about
two o'clock in the morning and we're
gonna try and swim some cold hot miles
warm in the hope that we can get across
the Maura Firth before some swimmers
come in I think that you get about 60
miles to get across Duncan to be head
near John Rhodes down to rapture here
which is the the bottom of it so but we
can make it about 60 miles crossing but
yeah there's no choice but to do all
this sea really because otherwise gotta
go all the way in and all the way back
out again which would be 120 miles in
through 60 miles so
you've gotta go for it if there's any
illusions that this is now going to be
easy
live quickly one out of the window or
because the Mori is a hard master
teacher
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surprise as you know on the great
British game
if Mother Nature and your weather we
know and says that yo you can get across
the very first judge stone question it
for whatever reason the Moray Firth has
just got quiet almost flat but swimmable
for the next four days but not only is
this huge but what's worse as well is
we're getting less and less daylight
hours as we're heading into the British
winter I just feel as a team we've got
to use everything that we've learned
from Margate all the way to John
O'Groats to successfully get across and
what I mean by that is is just mental
resilience feeding strategies sleep
strategies hydration also even just
siting off the boat we're using glow
sticks flashlights headlights anything
so I'm able to swim efficiently in the
right direction and not actually waste
any miles by disappearing off into the
dead of night that is the Mari Firth
yeah it's it's honestly I'm a little bit
sleep-deprived so I don't want to get
too emotional but it's just really
really nice there as much as I really
appreciate all of the comments on social
media you have to know that whenever I'm
out there swimming you know through the
night for six hours for fifty miles
they're there as well the other thing
I'm learning about these sea crossings
is because I am swimming more than I'm
sleeping at the moment if I can grab you
know an hour wall while we're waiting
for a weather window or you know there's
times when I'm sleeping on the deck and
I fallen asleep in my wetsuit Matt had
to wake me up and put me to play it's
fallen asleep in the galley I was just
eating my dinner but grabbing sleep just
however and whenever you can has become
so important to recovering and making
sure that you can continue to do this
and get all the way around the coast to
Great Britain and it's not a swimming
event it's it's a war of attrition are
you gonna stop this inevitable breakdown
of the body and manage to float into
Margate before it completely breaks down
or you lose your marbles
and that's all it really is is just
trying to swim and they start following
me
swimming in two directions into the Sun
out
and McCoy's idea come on Mike the great
British firm all of a sudden out of
nowhere
redbull Matadors
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and then he just became very apparent in
the sky it is true 100 inches per line
straight through he was at the moment I
was like wow
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I'm a genuine me I lost complete track
of time around Froy the airshow no one
else around independent the more ether
and it was just amazing
I'll never forget something you know way
to celebrate your swimming century
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guys have as a part of swim
feels so good to say
just because there was there was no
foreplay it was just straight into waves
darkness few jellies I wanted to do this
final blog straight after I got out so I
still feel a little bit jaded
my ears are completely blocked got salt
couplers perhaps the biggest casualty
out of the microphone was my feet it's
just it's so cold like that now we're
over the east side but Morsi is just
just unforgiving in terms of the
temperature this is the reality of Great
Britain is it's just this far from over
and a lot of people are saying you know
home straight now it's all downhill and
I don't wanna believe it but the war
effort just made it abundantly clear
that that that just isn't the case I
always say you know certainly the smile
and I try I type genuinely I always try
but there's a particular time in this
particular sweetness it was something
completely different and that's just
because when you look at the lights come
across more infirmary solution when I
tried to swim
party and I was I was three miles off
sure I can see the lights so so clearly
and they're tired at the currents just
have different ideas and just pushed me
back and I never made it and so on this
time if I'm being completely honest I
was just fueled by remembering the
bitter bitter taste of going back after
that swim and and saying you know it was
a DNN fire I did not finish with the
Great British swim that could
potentially with the same none of it
will count for anything unless we reach
Margate you it will go down to DNA I did
not finish and I wasn't earning the
style necessarily it was just
it's just putting a lot of those
swimming demons to death those those
that unfinished business that I said
that started for the whole bit very swim
I just thought this is just what
happening again you're getting another
DNF on the records people asked me well
I think about during these ties this
tired in particular was just a little
bit different but more effort amazing
bat adores a hundred days witness or
dolphins again today but equally was
brutal so it was
for a lot of reasons and not all of the
years I was still very much at the
business end of it would be an entire
East Coast still to swim so that's it
for this week thank you so much
afternoon again as always and fingers
crossed touchwood chilling in next week
when I'm a little bit further down south
and a little bit closer to Margate as
all my progress at the break will
tracker rip Waldo WK / great swim
hopefully I'll see you next week with
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