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Tag Archives: Damian Blaum

Trent Grimsey’s World Record English Channel – Returning to Dover

Narrative imperative required that I leave out some details from after Trent finished his swim. When Trent swam back to the boat with Damián, he was of course tired, like all Channel swimmers, but not unusually so. He is a professional athlete after all. He also wasn’t however particularly bloated. Swimmer’s bloat, Third Spacing of…

October 5, 2012 in English Channel.

Trent Grimsey’s English Channel World Record – Part 6 – Nothing Great Is Easy

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Some messages to Trent involved an ongoing in-joke with Trent’s crew which I can’t repeat, but I can tell you they involved direct messages from a deity. Trent was hammering, burning. His kick was fully switched on, his stroke was up and still increasing and he’d probably briefly seen…

September 27, 2012 in English Channel.

Trent Grimsey’s English Channel World Record – Part 4 – “Now’s the hard bit”

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. All this time, we’d been in a race, Trent, the crew, Gallivant. Though there were other Solos out that day, including Chloë McCardel‘s second three-way record attempt, (she made it to about two hours into the third leg) Trent’s race was with a ghost, or shall I say, ghostly…

September 21, 2012 in English Channel, Open Water swimming.

Trent Grimsey’s English Channel World Record – Part 2 – Record Day dawns

Part 1 To step back a moment, the first post didn’t exactly explain why Owen and I were on the boat. I can only surmise that when Trent asked me to crew early on in the week, I think it was partly because we’d already been touch by email and Twitter, and partly because of…

September 16, 2012 in English Channel, Open Water swimming.

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