Adam and I are seriously ready to swim — and the weather has us land-locked. We talked to our awesome pilot boat captain today and Wednesday (7/16) seems like our day. One of the big challenges of swimming the English Channel is having the patience to wait for the perfect weather day.
In this blog post [...]

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Great news! We got boats!
It’s all lined up and we couldn’t be happier. Thank you all for your feedback and anecdotes relating your experience with your pilots. The one thing we learned from all of you is that all of the pilots are great. We did not get a single [...]

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Thank you all so much for the feedback on pilots, tides, etc. We received dozens of emails from people who are training and those who have completed the swim. Most of you gave quite candid and humble reasons for your success as well as a few who discussed reasons for unsuccessful attempts. [...]

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Ugghh. First off, my utmost apologies for such a long time between posts. Life happened, and I have been absolutely swamped since coming back from Denver and Seattle. I just shifted into survival mode for a while. Neal seemed to suffer the same fate at the same time. Alas, it [...]

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There is a lot of sponsorship stuff going on behind the scenes that we’re excited to tell you about as soon as details get finalized.
Everything about this trek is moving in fast forward. We are in the final stages of securing our pilot boats. These are the boats that will drive next to us during [...]

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