Please Wish Me Luck - I Will Be Swimming The English Channel Tomorrow
 

or at least attempting to...

how long do you think it will take me?

i suspect at least 3 hours...

anyway, wish me luck....







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WTF .. are u kidding

I recall there is a short cut, if I can remember it I will post it here.

no dude...

i tried this last year but i barely made it past the breakers, but back then i was smoking 12 packs of cigs a day...

this year i am in much better shape...





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Don't forget to eat plenty of beans and float on your back for half of the trip.. and if you end up shitting, it's just fishfood. :thumbsup

here's a picture a local reporter snapped of me after my attempt last year..

thats actually water in my belly.. i'm not fat like that...

the paramedics told me i swallowed at least 40 gallons of water...


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_knGYCiMc9s...ttle+Beach.jpg








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I remember when you tried to do it in 06. Good luck tomorrow.

http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/gfy/mse...channel/01.jpg

http://www.zuzanadesigns.com/gfy/mse...channel/02.jpg

Good luck ol' chum (well, let's hope you don't become chum - I hope that I didn't jump the shark in saying that)... :winkwink:

I will think of you when I am surfing English channels tomorrow in search of much college football whilst consuming massive quantites of adult beverages. :drinkup

http://images.cheezburger.com/comple...4195790256.jpg

ADG

thanks...

you would barely recognize me now..

i lost 15 pounds, got collagen in my lips, pec and calf implants, and i stopped getting my armpit hair and eyebrows colored...

maybe we could have a spot of tea and a good shag when i swim from the bahamas to north carolina in the spring...




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hm man i have been swimming alot in my life so i wish you have luck and not so big waves :thumbsup

Congrats on the weight loss MS. I was hoping you were going to shave your almost always dyed hairy parts. I only like green tea if that's ok. I will give you my latitude and longitude via e-mail.

Be safe tomorrow and don't give up.

The English Channel (French: la Manche, Breton: Mor Breizh, Cornish: Mor Bretannek) is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France, and joins the North Sea to the Atlantic. It is about 560 km (350 mi) long and varies in width from 240 km (150 mi) at its widest, to only 34 km (21 mi) in the Strait of Dover. It is the smallest of the shallow seas around the continental shelf of Europe, covering an area of some 75,000 km2 (29,000 sq mi).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ishChannel.jpg

Don't they have a bridge?
WG

Good luck Bro! Even if you only do a few miles, it will still be impressive.

Pffft!!!

What a pussy, "swimming" the English Channel...you should at least try and jump the English Channel or do something else that hasn't been done before:



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ADG

Congrats and Good Luck

I know the english channel doesn't exactly get much warmer but why not do this in summer?

You don't know Sir Market Smart. Aye, he is a brave lad (even if slightly off his rocker).

Actually, he's a bit like a fish when he's out of water...



ADG

which stroke are you doing?

good luck in your quest!

good luck man :)

Good luck.

You know those pec and calf implants aren't real muscle and they won't help you any right ? :)

When he was younger, MarketSmart was a Junior Olympic cockstroker... :jerkoff

ADG

http://www.clavey.com/images/product...llBoatOars.jpg

Hey here is the short cut.. Laughing!!

Good Luck

Was this by any chance for children in need? Hope it went well.

We were thinking of building a bridge but then we realized the French drive on the wrong side of the road so it could lead to a few accidents...

good luck :)

Railway tunnel.

Fatfoopedia :upsidedow

wow. the last record is over 6 hours and you are gonna do it in three. Idiot

his roommate jim posted on twitter some disturbing news about the attempted swim. don't know i should say anything. i'll see if i can get eric to approve jim's account here so he can post. : (

hope it went well.

its soooo cold.

good luck and swim fast

Let me know when you are leaving and I'll get my rig and follow along and keep you company - thar it is...I calls it the TITanICK (it's a babe magnet):

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b1...6351893983.jpg

If you want, when you're done with your swim, I can hook up my outboard and take you water skiing on the way back! :thumbsup

ADG

RIP Marketsmart. I can't believe he drowned. Why didn't he have spotters?:(

Is that TeenCat ??

any update on how it went?

i don't know if to believe this or not... some bad info in the thread there that's for sure

lots of shit on twitter about it. fucking sad.

Did he make it in three hours? According to Agent_488, MarketSmart is done posting here.

wow this is bad.

i am sorry that you cannot swimm, but it doesnt mean anything is bad :winkwink:

wonder how the weather was? if it was windy it would have been suicide.

No. it's me with my bitchin' Redneck Riviera ride...built it myself! :thumbsup

I volunteered. Marketsmart was too proud... :(

I kept trying to send him No Signals, but all he saw were Yes Signals... :Oh crap

We should set up a fundraiser:

http://www.GfyMarketSmartMemorialFund,com

I wonder if we should let Christian Bale know?



RIP MarketSmart... :(

ADG

Twenty miles? That's a lot. I swam across the lake of constance once. But it's nowhere near that far.

whats the url to that twitter where info was posted?

Good luck take pics

Nothing quite like giving yourself a challenge: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-11355367

50 missing marketsmarts?