oh good morning and see you I'm getting
the hang of this whole great very soon
log and then just what I think I've got
this whole thing figured out
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so guys I'm back
the grapefruit spoon it's still on just
about last week was rough but I survived
it I survived on Holi chafing
but back now got calluses on my neck I
think it's God and makes for a cool
story
Rhino neck seems to be trending like
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work it this morning
and good good and bad news so the good
news is there was no chunks of my tongue
on my pillow which is always good news
the bad news is that I've worked out
today and matt informs me that we've got
some pretty cheeky southwesterly winds
coming our way
the size of the ways we don't know at
the moment but speaking to Matt over
breakfast he basically just told me to
make peace with the fact that today I'm
gonna be eating waves for 12 hours so
we're gonna tighten up today life
jackets on if you see something that's
been left out that hasn't been tired
down or hasn't been put away probably
put it away
putting rossum to see i'm confident that
he's got the power to punch into it and
to swim in terms the conditioners go
from being well this is fun we're doing
six knots to being oh this is actually
quite dangerous but I was going to get
tired it's gonna feel later at sea and
you know actually feel like quite a
significant ocean passage were about to
do I might have to call it for safety
reasons they have we can't feel
comfortable that you're in the sea
because we're losing sight of you or
because we're not have to track you
probably anymore that we might just say
actually that's not safe anymore so we
might have waited around for six hours
to start swimming again in the ocean
pretty uncomfortable we'll put you in
for 20 minutes ago actually
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just finished the morning swim today got
a little bit sunburned as you can tell
nose took a little bit of a battery
that's actually that's sunburn and also
as well my nose fell out with them a few
of the jellyfish yesterday and that I
accidentally swam into or they swam into
me I don't know I don't know who had
right-of-way
so is it twice about to be enough put it
back in the cup water
me right on the face than that
absolutely tea back me go well I'm
getting the hang of this whole Great
Britain mug and they're just sort of
think I've got this whole thing figured
out jellyfish this one wasn't so bad but
once I took like the tenth one just
straight to the face I just popped my
head up I was I absolutely killing me
turn to Dom kills on the rib at the time
and I was like Dom I'm swimming in
jellyfish and he laughed and he was like
no there you're being dramatic and then
they got the big light we got some other
footage last night and it was just crazy
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this is crazy an entire team of
jellyfish it was about the tenth one on
my nose when I was like ah come on
right just full-on teabag smoke Tim
straight to the nodes so that's why
yesterday it started to get to the point
where my face was numb it was stinging
so bad he was just throbbing if a
jellyfish was going through my garden at
home I would be like you know what
you're doing so I think the jellyfish
were probably doing the same with me
that make sense
it's me it matters crunch the numbers
after today's morning swim and we've
realized in 24 hours we've actually
managed to achieve over 30 miles which
feels amazing
not just because we've over achieved in
our daily target but also it comes off
the back of what has been the roughest
week the roughest week I've ever had
competing in any sport it was just
knowing that every single day you had a
target to hit so although you had an
open wound that was only getting worse
you still had to make peace with the
fact you had to go in and for 12 hours a
day it was just like grinding and
grating on that open wound I would just
love it if everybody watching looked at
how rough the start of the Great Britain
was and just see that if you're prepared
to actually subject your body to that
stress and stimuli you know so your
habitual level like what your body's
used to doing and you just shift that if
you're prepared to do that and not
really really ride out like everything
that is unpleasant about it you will
come out the other side stronger fitter
more robust more durable and just harder
to kill basically say you go high but
stupidly high because it will force you
to adapt it will force you into
uncomfortable situations there's been
times when I've been swimming at night
from waves in currents
my shoulders are on fire and I could
stop I could just get back on the boat
sleep but
that circumnavigation swim all around
Great Britain isn't gonna happen any
faster if I do that
thank you guys that's it for this week's
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I've been Ross Ashley and this is the
Great Bear Swim