Day 344 - Monday 26th September 2011

Not much to report this morning.  The sea was churning up and the waves bouncing around.  The BBC were at the Arch filming Paul as he has recently had a lottery grant to preserve the BSC 100 + years of history. They took us walking down the beach and diving into the sea; 6.30pm tonight on BBC 1.  That aside no real news other that a bumpy but pleasant swim this morning.

One piece of news, not related to my swim, is that a Relay attempt was called of last week due to the adjudicator falling down on the boat and being injured.  As such two of the 6 person team had to fly back to the USA, leaving the tam two people down and one final slot on Wednesday (28^th).  So Big Bob and Alex were asked by Fiona to stand in and they both agreed; not surprising that Alex went for it, but fairly surprising Bob did as he seemed so against doing this.  Anyhow, both are fantastic swimmers and totally capable and the relay team are extremely lucky to have them both.  If the weather holds they will be off on Wednesday and will hopefully be successful channel swimmers by this time Thursday – good luck to them both.