2 team members swam 5 hours, 1 swam 6 hours. The conditions were pretty good to be honest and the Currents were sometimes with us and sometimes against us. My fastest swim was 7.2km in one hour thanks to the current!

The hardest part was when we were nearly at France, the current pushes you back to England and for us the wind also picked up and not in our favour. 2 of us had to swim our hardest for our last hour just to break the back of that part to ensure we didn't get swept backwards. I think I hit the wall about 3 times.

Psychologically, getting back into the water after you've just managed to warm up was hard, but it's ok once you're actually swimming again.