Fun stuff going on at the English Channel the last couple of weeks. About 2 weeks ago, a woman set the time for the slowest English Channel crossing of 29 hours 4 minutes. Then today, Andreas Waschburger, set the time for the fastest Channel crossing in 6:45:25 (unofficial). And for all the Slowtwitch folks, Michael Tsang completed his Channel crossing today.
Slowest Crossing
Tim
Geez different ends of the spectrum . You got a link to the Andreas crossing or from the channel swim page? Some friends will be interested
That’s a mega effort from Sophie. I can’t imagine swimming for that long.
Me neither. But it’s so strange to mix sports (how fast you can swim X) with weird experiments/adventures (how long can you stay in cold, choppy water).
And today Michael is doing the 10K Dock2Dock - madness!!
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I don’t, but he has it posted on his Instagram page and there has been some postings on social media of the track. But it is still unofficial and hasn’t been ratified yet. I’m sure there will be more reports on it over the next few days.
Tim
Sounds about par for the course for him.
The sine wave swim. Looks like twice the distance too.
I find it most interesting that for super fast swimmer, they can pick a departure time to get the current at its lowpoint, so being able to take a near-direct route.
Hector Pardoe broke the Windermere (10.5.miles) end to end record last weekend that had stood for about 25 years. It’ll be interesting to see his time when he goes to attempt the Channel.
I’ll be interviewing Sophie on my podcast on Thursday .
Are there any questions you have for her? I’ll post a link with permission from the mods.
I’ll be interviewing Sophie on my podcast on Thursday .
Are there any questions you have for her? I’ll post a link with permission from the mods.
What was your mind when your torture was not ending?
That’s a mega effort from Sophie. I can’t imagine swimming for that long.
Sophie is wheelchair bound. This is an incredible performance.
She’s incredible
I’ll be interviewing Sophie on my podcast on Thursday .
Are there any questions you have for her? I’ll post a link with permission from the mods.
What was your mind when your torture was not ending?
Are you happy and satisfied now you’ve completed it Michael?
Does anyone know if the tides/weather have been particularly favourable recently because the Arch to Arc triathlon swim crossing record was broken this week too and it seemed to be a very straight crossing compared to many that I see.
https://x.com/enduromanevents/status/1700547260717691367?s=46&t=mJbhwTGSICZ7F6Jo9FH8dQ
some of the photos from andreas swim make it look like he went for a swim in a bath tbh. you don’t break time records in ow events unless conditions align. not sure about tides but surface conditions seemed perfect. when you are swimming at their speeds you beat the tides so you don’t have to snake around so much. no 2 ec swims seem the same - have friends who have done sub 10 hours and others who are much stronger do 11-14 hours or not make it (not because of cold issues but because of conditions preventing you getting across).
I interviewed Sophie on Thursday and now the podcast is up.
https://spotify.link/eBIkkQwNaDb
She was really interesting and obviously pretty amazing. Her description of adaptation to the pain of even warm water was too much for a wimp like me