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Great Yarmouth Training 2012
While searching through some old footage the other weekend, we found this little gem of a video blog which never made it out (my fault – I thought it was too long but never got around to shortening it). See … Continue reading
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Tagged ben, cold, neilson, open, swim, training, water
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Ben Has Completed His Channel Swim!
Ben is now a English Channel swimmer, completing his swim on the 1st September in a time of 14hrs 52mins! He will be doing a full blog post at a later date with his perspective of the swim after he’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ben, brophy, channel, dover, english, france, garry clark, matt neilson, phil artingstall, sea leopard, stuart gleeson, swim, tunnel
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The Swim Live Feed – 1st September
We will be heading out at 6am on 1st September! You can track where Brophy has got up to with the map below (if you can’t see a indicator where the boat is, it’s probably in port). We will also … Continue reading
We are heading out tomorrow!
We have just had the call and found out we are heading out tomorrow! Very exciting! Busy running around at the moment getting ready, but in the mean time you can see our final thoughts before the swim in the … Continue reading
Fundraising with tea and scones
On August 4th, my family ran a fundraising event to support Brophy’s chosen charity, in the form of tea and scones out on the lawn! There was also a bring-and-buy sale with everything from books to home-grown veg (thanks to … Continue reading