Take an ordinary swimmer. Drop him in Dover. Look who he hangs out with!

Left to right, your eponymous writer/swimmer, Shelley Taylor-Smith, seven times World Open Water Champion, five times MIMS winner & record holder and the only woman to ever be World Number One, Inductee of both Swimming & Marathon Hall of Fame, and such a hoot I think she must be 90% Irish, and of course my buddy and personal hero Lisa Cummins, the only woman to do a Double Channel before a single.

In the presence of greatness.