Think you're fit ???

[amnesia]

Then give this a go...

A teacher and athlete from Peterborough is aiming to swim across the Atlantic as part of a global sporting feat.
Dan Martin, from Haddon, is in training for an 18-month global triathlon, which he will begin in Canada in May.
He aims to swim more than 3,600 miles (5,000km) from Nova Scotia to Brest in France and then cycle across Europe.
The 28-year-old will cross Russia and Siberia at the coldest time of the year to traverse the Bering Straits to Alaska and onward to run across Canada.
He will end up at Nova Scotia having circumnavigated the world swimming, running and cycling.

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Nutter !!!

 

[dan_bo]

Pussy.

How on earth do you SWIM the ATLANTIC?

 

[amnesia]

8 hour stints, recording position using GPS to start from the same place the next day.

It's only 3600 miles

 

[gaz]

EPIC!

 

[dan_bo]

If he was proper hard he'd be swimming the pacific instead.

 

[Yellow Fang]

That's the sort of thing that seems like a good idea at the time, but by the time you're three days in you think, 'God, this is really boring, why am I doing this?'

 

[snorri]

I haven't much time for these stunts that have "support" all along the way.

 

[hackbike 666]

He'd be proper hard if he tried to swim on dry land.

 

[dudi]

pfff... sod that for a game of soldiers. bet they don't do a nice bacon sandwich and cup of tea in Russia...
That would be the only reason i wouldn't do it... honest!

 

[Cubist]

That's the sort of thing that seems like a good idea at the time, but by the time you're three days in you think, 'God, this is really boring, why am I doing this?'

He's a triathlete. If you imbue him with any sort of thought process whilst competing, it won't even be close to yours!

 

[Twenty Inch]

He's a triathlete. If you imbue him with any sort of thought process whilst competing, it won't even be close to yours!

I concur - I'm a recovering triathlete. I thought I could handle it - bit of a run here, bit of a cycle there, recreationally, only on weekends, but pretty soon it was all I could think about, and I was doing it 3 times a day, in the morning, at lunchtime, then after work. I lost my relationship, didn't have any friends, all my money went on it, and when I wasn't doing it, I'd obsess about the next time.

I quit before I got onto the real hard stuff, my longest event was the Isle of Arran half-Ironman.

 

[Pottsy]

Twenty Inch - wow, so is that something that often happens to triathletes? I've only really known one and he was super-obsessed, so it seems that might be a possibility. I wonder if the sport attracts obsessive people or vice versa.

Never really interested me despite the fact I run, cycle and swim. Just not competitive enough I suspect.

 

[Twenty Inch]

Triathlon - the sport of misfits!

Definitely attracts obsessive people - all the kit, the fiddling with training timetables, the diarisation, the self-obsession (how am I feeling? am I overtraining? what's my RHR? MY GOD IT'S 2BPM FASTER THIS MORNING!!!) and the feeling of superiority. I'm well rid of it, don't miss it at all, I tell you.

 

[Pottsy]

Sounds like you're well rid of it. Sport for those with OCD!

 

[Piemaster]

The guy was on breakfast TV. He was looking 'plump' - he is trying to put weight on in preparation for the swim. In much the same way I expect as a seal does.
I am also at the moment following a similar training regime, just without the swimming bit.