Congratulations to Kristy McIntyre on her sole swim of the English Channel on 25 July 2012.
Kristy's personal account of her swim is on her blog here: http://krittermac.blogspot.co.uk/
If you wonder how Tweets might help a swimmer, have a look at these made during Ktristy's swim for Kristy naturally.
@DeirdreWardB come on!! You're in the separation zone and flying along!! well done!! xx
@DeirdreWardB oh no!! Hope he's ok. - get up duat yourself off she needs you - awesome tweeting @mike_barron_
@Tex_James goodluck - swim hard & stay in there you'll see France. Awesome tweeting thus far @Nickthefish11
For more fun in the English Channel today follow my friends @DeirdreWardB @Tex_James
DeirdreWardB I've woken up to find you 4 hours in already... Go Deidre Go... I want my second little dumpling in the club!
Thankyou to all those who followed, tweeted support, donated & to @Nickthefish11 & Mark for 10/10 swim coverage & stellar crewing
@CAMcPhillips swum it finished 2 hrs ago in time of 13hrs 17 mins
Sorry. Couldn't help myself! ETA in Dover 7pm pic.twitter.com/JM1wExZe
Well, as they say "that's all folks". Hope you've enjoyed my tweeting. This is Nick the Tweeting Monster OUT. Bye bye and Big Love
Did I forget to mention she's doing this for charity?? http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false …
Heroine with French stone, bucket and landing beach in background. AWESOME pic.twitter.com/X5AjC039
Kristy Mcintyre is a Channel Swimmer in 13 hours and 17 mins. Someone please email this to Serps group
Final feed (tea) done. 500m. Mark and I getting wet in a couple of minutes. PATIENCE boys and girls!
Counting the cows and practising saying "don't touch" in French to the froggies on the beach!
What a legend. Slowly plodding her way in to a nice sandy beach.
Mark and I will go in for the finish when it's time, then sort K out. Only then will we tweet the good news. Patience will be needed chaps!
Mark out and shivering. Kristy relieved she can now just potter along for the last km. She's a happy tired bunny
Going to stretch this "hour of power" by 5 mins or so! Then we're pretty much out of tide and she can potter in slowly. Tea next feed
This is us passing Cap Gris Nez pic.twitter.com/np0EBU3v
Flood tide really ripping up the coast. We're flying. Any effort here increases her chances on tucking in as we pass the cap. She's working!
Enough loaded maxims. She starting to feel sick. Going to give her a nice tea + fruit sugar next. She's doing really well
This is our heroine being swept past the cap.Asked for another good half hour from. Vital to push now. She's delivering pic.twitter.com/wqLj2WZY
I've managed to get 4 scoops of Maxim into that!!
New game: throwing pork cocktail sausages at Mark's head! Would be even more fun if he was a veggie!!
To put that into perspective. That's 4-5 times stronger than it says on the tub! It WILL all come up again when she's finished!!
This girl has a cast iron stomach! For next feed have got 3 scoops of maxim to dissolve into 150ml!! Hot water will go in to make ~250ml
Maxim and peaches last feed just gone. Ibruprofen next feed. She said "this really hurts"! Good girl
in the photo, if you look at the cap (pointy bit of land) we're being taken to the left by tide. Mail-biting stuff
Rod Newing you're a gentleman, as are you Daniel when you cough up. K and Fabik and Cap. Asked for "hour of power". pic.twitter.com/dmf6su3N
@dmlobo is that a pledge Daniel?
Another deal for all you tweetees: Give her £20 and I won't send a photo of Mark's hairy back being sun creamed!! http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false …
If someone donates a tenner now, I'll send a photo of a heroine and Cap Gris Nez! http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false … Who's going to deliver on this one???
She's stepping up to the plate today. You do the same: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false …
Aussie flags now fluttering in the wind. We'll have wind against tide (tad less comfortable) soon. She's a good girl and stoically battling
Absolutely loading her feeds with Maxim. Will continue to do so unless she starts being sick!!!!!
1.5nm=2.7km to land. Probably going to miss cap. Chucking Mark in at next feed, the 11.5 hour one
Tide has turned. Flood is here. We're back up towards Calais now! She'll be fine. She'll make it, but it'll just take a tad longer still to flood tide. Good work praying boys and girls! Keep on praying!
Slack tide now. Pray for flood tide (which will take us towards Calais) to hold off for a little while!
Ebb slowing right down. Just had a good quick feed. She's working hard. Good girl
The next 30 mins is crucial! 1.5 hrs or 2-3 hrs. The tide decides! Either way awesome time/swim
2.25nm from nearest bit of France. Tide turning. If we get some slack water it could be 1.5 hrs. If not we'll miss cap and 2-3 hrs to go
Going very well. 'Spiking' her feeds with more Maxim still! Ebb dying off. Need a decent amount of slack if possible before moving up coast
Paracetamol requested for next feed. Can alternate ibruprofen and paracetamol to keep on top of pain. Swimming well, but tired
We are on the edge of French inshore waters and Neil has informed us Kristy is moving even further inside nicks route, this is a good thing
The ZC2 buoy. This edge of NE lane. 3nm straight to cap. Looks like a submarine moving due to tide pulling on it. COOL! pic.twitter.com/FQbHEsm4
9 hour feed done. Been adding an extra scoop of maxim powder to each recent feed so I can make them hotter. Cold patches in NE lane.All good
Go on.....give her a tenner for this herculean effort: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false …
We're moving down the coast with tide. From Cap Blanc Nez towards Cap Gris Nez. 1.5 more hours of eeb tide. Diet coke time for Mark and Nick
I think it's flattening out! Don't know how! It's like a pool before anyone's got into it! Quite stunning
For those confused, that is Kristy's official CS&PF observer Alan. A former merchant seaman and generally jolly good chap
In light of the stupid olympic advertising moratorium, our observing today is brought to you by Walkers and Pepperami!! pic.twitter.com/jgFYmQ39
Special request photos, perhaps Mark topless, will be considered, but only for significant sponsorship today at: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false …
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Mark, support swimmer extraordinaire, post-swim feeding. I enjoyed throwing stuff at him when he was in water!Good game pic.twitter.com/KIaCyDMi
Drugs+maxim delivered. 1.85nm from edge of NE lane = 3.35km. Tide taking us down coast on ebb towards Boulogne at 4 knots
Mark is out safe and sound. Drugs next feed, ie 4 hrs after last time. She's still swimming brilliantly
There's now two of them in this viciously rough sea! Mark got in at 6.5 hrs for one hour. Must not get infront of her pic.twitter.com/NEGTFlDd
Nick is feeling sick as he's just had to suncream Mark's hairy back!!
This is a Fabik getting ready to join young Kristy pic.twitter.com/JMbeW2wY
Hero has just had 3 peach slices and some tea to settle her tummy. We've just come out of the sep zone at 6 hrs. So good.
Breakfast for Mark and Nick: Diet coke and pork scratchings!
I know it's not Kristy related, but funny anyway. Round Jersey had first wetsuited swim ever yesterday! Wrong. He had to have two poo's! Ha
It's DIET COKE TIME!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/VuGEmPNi
Separation zone is 1 mile (nautical mile nm) wide. =1.81km. Should get through it, and into NE lane, in 40 mins
Ships 'drive' on right. So in SW lane they come from left. Soon they'll be from right. Now Seperation Zone
Imagine 2 sided motorway. Hard shoulders = English and French inshores. Sep zone = central reservation. SW lane first. French lane = NE lane
If you put two people into a big swimming pool together, and they swam up and down, there would be more ripples than out here!
More importantly, get others to follow her twitter and to sponsor her at: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserPage.action?userUrl=KristyMcIntyre&faId=206851&isTeam=false …
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Feeding time again. 5 hours in. She'd requested peaches. It's SO flat and gorgeous out here! Can't get flatter!
Flood tide, taking us up (towards NE) the channel is lessening off. Slack water then
Two swimmers (solos) have given up! CSA's Pathfinder and Viking Princess! Poor bash in these conditions! Go as far as to say WEAK!
Princess feeding pic.twitter.com/PIpmwVgQ
Mark feeding her. Rubbish photo, but you'll get the idea pic.twitter.com/6HQbqEs2
Guessing you want a photo of our heroine!! Ok. We'll please the crowd!
AIS display. Red = pointing at, green = direction moving due to flood tide which didn't show up yesterday. FLAT and HOT pic.twitter.com/4FsfduGe
Big container ship and White Cliffs to the right. It's HOT out here! pic.twitter.com/VCNKN7XB
She is flying along! Half way though the south west lane! crew enjoying their breakfast of bacon butties, even nick got up for those
Loath as we were to do it the boat has now been draped in aussie flag bunting! Cheers Clare http://yfrog.com/kgmblrcj
ok think we have sorted spot it issue! anyone watching please let us know!
Seems we have a spot tracker issue! getting hot and only 6am perfect channel conditions
Sun is up and she is cruising at 60 strokes per min http://yfrog.com/od8g4hwij
First feed down without so much as a pause. Sun is already rising!
Ok. Promise this is final rubbish photo! Swimmer foreground right. Dover lights on left. Bright star in between pic.twitter.com/exfBOXbT
Beautifully flat. Warm morning. Eastern sky discernably brighter than western. She'll only have real dark for an hour or so. All's good
Another crap photo! Two lights on our hero. One flashing green on head and constant green on bottom. Starter at 03:30UK pic.twitter.com/DPXGzVN5
Swimming to beach pic.twitter.com/3eLfnnAl
Ready to go pic.twitter.com/o2AKyHn7
A rubbish photo. All the other boats out this morning can count at least 6 others pic.twitter.com/jW3B9kiJ
The glamorous side of Channel swimming! Grease next! pic.twitter.com/G22lcA9X
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This is Kristy's SPOT tracker that tells the world where we are every ten mins. Be aware it'll initially have spots fro pic.twitter.com/xgaE17l3
From yesterdays swim. Click on this link to follow it:
Our heroine. Leaving Dover Marina pic.twitter.com/n62hCbm8
have a boat! pic.twitter.com/3mgmFHpg
Everyone else has headed out and we're still waiting for a boat!!!
At Dover Marina waiting for a boat! pic.twitter.com/3nQvGw0x
Waiting at Marina for start of channel swim - track me here http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0yeHQ0bluLFqyTf932J6W1nRCQHB5nCif …
In the car speeding down to Dover. Mark driving whilst Kristy asleep on the makeshift bed in the rear of the estate. All's good
