Re: Top Tip: #387

In communiqué <okyWk.92322$E41.8030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, platypus <monotreme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> cast forth these pearls of wisdom
Alex Ferrier wrote:
platypus wrote:

Did every member of the team[1] do the whole crossing, or was it a
sort of relay thing?


It was, of course, a relay, 6 of us. Though we were all aged 13/14 at
the time. The water was 52F (11C) and I was nearly hypothermic when
they pulled me out at the end of my second hour long stint. Being the
strongest swimmer in the group I got the shittiest sections, the
second, swimming against the tide for an hour solid maybe a mile off
the French coast, getting absolutely nowhere, the scene didn't change
for the whole hour and I was just a gibbering wreck when they pulled
me out.

Respect.

AOL.

Furthest I've ever swum is two miles, in a swimming pool, and it took me three hours to do it.


<makes note to hold on to platy if the French run ferry goes down>

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