When the tide pulls you’ve got to swim the Channel – no matter the reason — theguardian.com

The desire to swim the Channel washes over you. And then haunts you. The tragic news last week that an endurance athlete died in the course of his triathlon swim, and the growing focus on completing consecutive crossings, has made me reconsider the tribute I paid to all successful Channel swimmers a few years back. Then I applauded all who achieve it. Now I salute the attempt. I speak advisedly, as a seasoned open-water swimmer who embarked on her first Swimtrek holiday in 2002 because of a love of the sea and an excitement, bordering on disbelief, that here was a holiday making it possible to swim from one island to another.

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