The three-swimmer relay team of Irene Keel, Dani Lobo and John Tierney reached France on Friday 6 September following 15 hours and 55 minutes of swimming.
Dani Lobo (39), started first and swam for two hours. John Tierney (49), swam second for the next two hours, handing over to Irene Keel (72) who swam her two hours.
Thank you to Paul Foreman and the crew of 'Optimist' for guiding us to France and back, and also to Jim Boucher our observer and motivator extraordinaire.
Thanks also to the club members and friends for messages of support, especially as we failed to go the distance on our swim the week previously.
And given the recent flurry of controversy regarding extremely famous crossings, we have also pasted our progress per KM for the actual 69kms of swimming we did across the 33km English Channel. This shows Irene Keel - our least youngest member of the relay team - posting the fastest 1km split of 8:48 which if it was in a pool would have given her the Olympic and world record for every swim ever.
Twitter accounts are as follows:
John Tierney here
Irene Keel here
Dani Lobo here
[JohnTierneyswim at live dot com]
