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Two men travelled from London to the Arctic islands of Svalbard by human power.

Category: English Channel

Stage 2 – The Swim

29 June 2018 Poldy77 2 Comments

This is our Instagram Q&A about the Channel (among other things) in case you missed it minus the first 5…

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Posted in: English Channel, Open Water Swimming Filed under: arch2arctic, Channel swim

Metamorphosing into a goldfish

5 November 2017 Poldy77

Well not quite, but I think you get an insight into how tedious life would be when you do a…

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Posted in: Arch2Arctic, English Channel Filed under: arch2arctic, brockwell lido, channel swimming, swimming, training

Back in the Open Water

22 October 2017 Rob McArthur

Now gradually recovering from my glandular fever, in the past couple of months I have dipped back into the sea…

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Posted in: Arch2Arctic, English Channel Filed under: a2a, arch2arctic, channel swimming, dover, endurance, Lake Windermere, mallorca, open water swimming, torbay, training

Supporting a Channel swim

10 August 2017 Poldy77

A few weeks ago, I had the treat of being on the support boat of a Channel swimmer challenger. The…

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Posted in: English Channel, Uncategorized

Coping with Glandular Fever – PART 2

24 July 2017 Rob McArthur 3 Comments

So how do you treat it? The problem with viruses is there’s not much you can do. The immunologist gave…

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Posted in: Arch2Arctic, English Channel Filed under: a2a, arch2arctic, channel swimming, EBV, endurance, glandular fever, recovery, Svalbard, the scouts

Sailing from Guernsey to England

15 June 2017 Poldy77

When Nick Cherry asked Rob if he’d be up for sailing from Guernsey to Lymington on a wee sailing boat…

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Posted in: Arch2Arctic, English Channel

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