French 100% passport check. Missed my departure due to gridlock. Cars blocked for up to three hours. Walked three miles to sleep on boat. Weather check tomorrow morning for ten am swim.
Dear Swimmers,
Normally I write the stories about the other swimmers, but this one will be too tricky to double task.Â
My August swim date has changed. On Saturday 23 July just after midnight, I will swim solo to France with Paul Foreman's boat Optimist as my escort pilot. My happy crew include Boris Mavra, Stu Bowman, Debs Bowman and Kat Jungnickel.
I will now start tonight 30 minutes after midnight from Dover.Â
In my head all Serpentine swimmers, Cork Distance Week swimmers will be my ace support crew which will help push me to France.
This is my Twitter account @swimmingdragonsÂ
You can track us in two ways, either via the excellent tracking device on the CSPF website here by clicking on Optimist.
Or you can try my Spot Tracker which updates every 10 minutes. The link is here.
Thankfully, the waters from my 2015 swim are flushed out somewhere by the Southern Hemisphere, so may 2016 be all the way. Â
Yours swimmingly
[John Tierney]