This week on the podcast, Emma is joined by endurance swimmer Bryony Rowe who is preparing for one of the toughest challenges in sport, swimming solo across the English Channel.
This summer Bryony will swim from Dover to France, an iconic crossing which often described as the Mount Everest of open water swimming.
With just a 60% success rate, swimming across the Channel is no small feat and more people have summited Everest than have swum the Channel.
Bryony’s swim slot opens on 29 July and coincides with the 100-year anniversary of the first woman to ever swim the English Channel, Gertrude Ederle, on 6 August 1926.
Bryony shares all about her swim, from her motivation, training and nutrition to her biggest fears, covering herself in lanolin (gross) and what makes the English Channel such an iconic challenge.
She also talks about what it means to her to share the slot with Gertrude Ederle’s anniversary and how she hopes to inspire more women and girls to try open water swimming.
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