Showing posts with label Channel Swimming DVD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Channel Swimming DVD. Show all posts

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Human Body: Pushing The Limits - Strength (Part 4 of 4) Including my English Channel Swim - July 10, 2007




On Tuesday, and IOWSA member asked me about my 2007 English Channel Swim which was filmed for The Discovery Channel. Today, I found the above 10 minute clip on Youtube which features the swim, 2 minutes 25 seconds into the clip.

To purchase the DVD set, which includes alot more useful knowledge about The Human Body, click on the picture above. I Hope English Channel aspirants find it useful.

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Sea Training in Estapona, Andalucia, Spain - Day 4, Tuesday March 18, 2008

Above: Video of the start of my swim on day 4, having had a really bad night's sleep.

Day 4 of the training trip to Spain, was a bit of a strange one having been awake for most of the night with bad indigestion! Our hosts for the trip, Mike and Monica Ames, had taken us to a restaurant called "Pepe's" the night before, and having enjoyed a wonderful seafood meal, they told use they had a surprise for us. We went to this ice cream bar where we had the biggest ice cream you ever did see. The whole night I was tossing and turning feeling physically sick!

Getting up next day, I was shattered and told Bex that the most I could manage this morning was a 3KM swim with the tide. We walked the full length of the beach, where I got undressed and into the water and set off tentatively on my swim. The temperature bottomed out at 16.4 Degrees Centigarde on my watch today. Bex had a bit of a video day today rather than a photo day, and the three below are the only photos she took (excellent they are of course!).

I swum past the rocks and saw the fishing boat again. If you ever go to Estapona, the seafood is superb, but don't eat one of them ice creams after it! I felt sick for the whole swim, and was very surprised that I wasn't!

At the end of the swim, I got out and walked back up the beach for a bit of a relax on the sunbed. It was bit disappointing as I had wanted to do a longer swim that day, but tomorrow was another day!

Total distance for the week so far (4 Days): 15,000 Metres.

Sunday, 30 March 2008

The Human Body DVD - Now available to purchase

Above: Human Body - Pushing the Limits - now available to purchase.

The Title Sponsor for my 2007 Channel Swim, Dangerous Films, filmed my channel swim on July 10, 2007, but while they did so, I had no idea exactly how they would be using the footage. What they in fact were doing, were making a 4 x DVD programme for the Discovery Channel called "Human Body - Pushing The Limits". Chris Pountney e-mailed me yesterday with a link to the Dallas Morning News which gives a column by Leslie Garcia on the DVD. It can be found by <Clicking Here>.

In the column, she describes me as a "...man – pale, slightly overweight..." who swims the English Channel. Charming! I thought I had got quite a suntan by then having spent so many weekends in Dover Harbour! LOL!

Anyway, if anyone is interested in buying a copy, it can be purchased online by clicking the link below (I do not get commission by the way!):-

I will e-mail Leslie Garcia a link to this blog to see if she would like to comment!

Update - April 01, 2008 - Leslie Garcia blogs about my swim...

I've made a new USA friend now with Leslie Garcia of the Dallas Morning News who has done a channel swim blog. <Click here to access the blog>. This is all getting very international!