Maintain Calm and Swim to France: Tales of an English Channel Swimmer

Swimming throughout the English Channel is thought to be one of many world’s hardest endurance challenges. Throughout an evening out with mates, Mark Ransom made a drunken pact with one among them that they’d swim the English Channel the next 12 months. On the time he had no thought simply what this was going to ivolve and it proved to be the hardest 12 months of his life. This can be a blow by blow account of Mark’s journey all through that 12 months the place he needed to organise and practice for this monumental occasion. He quickly realised that this was not simply concerning the problem of swimming the English Channel however was additionally about overcoming many private challenges and confronting his internal demons alongside the best way. Mark talks brazenly about his low moments when he needed to surrender altogether and likewise his excessive factors and the comical conditions he discovered himself in. From the intimate particulars of a kid’s beginnings to a person’s fears and troubles, Mark’s story is so fascinating and sincere. Mark discloses his innermost ideas and emotions together with these he skilled throughout the swim itself.

Following on from his profitable solo swim Mark returned to the Channel a number of years later to organise two relay groups to race to France. The ultimate a part of the e book particulars the organisation of this problem and finishes with the story of the race itself.

Mark Ransom’s e book goals to entertain, inform and encourage. That is as shut as you may get to experiencing an English Channel Swim with out really doing it!