article_snippet: As his’s settling down to his first crawl, it begins to dawn on ’ Conway that his’ll have to time his swims so that he’s going with the tide rather than against it
article_snippet: — because even Michael Phelps at full tilt wouldn’t be a match for the current and would start to go backwards.
article_snippet: Soon after, there’s another problem — seasickness, for ’
article_snippet: There are lots and lots of other dangers ahead, almost all of them coming as a shock to our intrepid swimmer.
article_snippet: Plus his scabby toe gets worse daily, his wetsuit doesn’t fit properly, his has to eat about 8,000 calories a day, often in mid-swim, and the protein shakes are giving his wind something dreadful.
article_snippet: ‘plan’ was that his’d be swimming for two months.
article_snippet: his daily distance is initially so low that, by his new calculations, His daily distance will take his two years to reach John o’Groats.
article_snippet: Then, amazingly, his starts to grind out the miles.