Road to 2027 · English Channel
I Failed the Channel. I'm Going Back.
Four hours in, my body was shutting down. Vomiting in open water, core temperature falling, I made the call and got out. Fourteen miles short. I have until July 2027 to go back and finish it.
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Days until the window opens
Fig. 02 · The Clock · 20 JULY 2027· Dover
Fig. 03 · The Debrief
I Thought I Was Ready. I Wasn't.
Five years Royal Marines. Two Afghan tours. Professional MMA. Ironman and ultra distance. A Masters in Osteopathy. On paper, built for it.
I have been cold, tired, broken and put back together more times than I can count. So I gave the Channel six months of prep at an hour a day, starting as a novice swimmer, and assumed the rest of the CV would carry me. The Channel does not care about your CV.
This time it gets the full year. Swimming, cold water, nutrition, all of it from scratch. I'm writing about it every week because I think there's something worth sharing in the process of coming back from getting it wrong.
"The Channel took everything I had. I'm going back to take it back."
The rules · no wetsuit · no fins · no stopping · most attempts fail
Fig. 05 · The Friday Email
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Fig. 06 · The Comeback Has Infrastructure
