Bruised, battered and now battle tested... tomorrow we hope to finish what we started... the first swim in history around the entire coast of Great Britain 🇬🇧
#GreatBritishSwim
There might be tears, there WILL be hugs 🤗But CANNOT wait to celebrate with you all on the beach 🏖
It’s OFFICIAL 😊 Today the
#greatbritishswim
became recognised at the World’s Longest Staged Sea Swim (without flippers & snorkels). Muchos HAPPY but only a mini celebration, then 900 more miles. IMPORTANT NOTE: If you’ve ever commented, liked or shared CANNOT thank you enough
This is AMAZING 😃
Woke up today to find
@RoyalMail
have put congratulatory
#GreatBritishSwim
messages on everyone’s letters around Great Britain 🇬🇧 I’ve literally no words, just a massive sense of pride for our country and gratitude 😊
Beyond Grateful 😃 The
#greatbritishswim
has been nominated for the World Open Water Swim Performance of the Year ☺️To JUST be nominated is a HUGE honour, but if you wanted to vote... well, that would be IMMENSELY appreciated too ☺️ Click here:
Thank you SO much for all the kind messages of support 🙏 As you can probably tell the swim didn’t entirely go to plan 😬 Will update properly later but wanted to publish a HUGE post of gratitude to everyone and say A GIANT thank you to my AMAZING support team 🙏
The BEST mile I will ever swim 😊 The atmosphere in the water was indescribable... just goosebumps upon tears upon smiles 😊
#greatbritishswim
Over 400 of the most AMAZING people each with insanely inspiring swimming stories of their own 😊
Blood, Sweat & Shrugs 😊 Took my brother
@antmiddleton
to
@lborouniversity
for a baptism of sports science! We call this ‘Battle Ready’ Programming because NO idea what I’m training for in 2019, but will be 100% ready when it arrives
@ColMikeTanner
@BearGrylls
next session 😉
HUGE NEWS 😊 I’m honoured to be coaching on the new
@Channel4
series “Sink or Swim” to raise money for
@SU2CUK
where we are attempting to coach 10 celebrities (who previously couldn’t swim) to cross the English Channel in a relay 💪🏽
One year ago I swum 100km pulling a 100-lbs tree between 2 islands but failed to touch land. (For me) I failed. Which is why it feels right to remember the words of Churchill “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"
#GreatBritishSwim
Some BIG swims left in the Thames Estuary to try finish what we started 5 months ago
#greatbritishswim
😊 I won’t lie, getting a tad emotional ☺️ Might be out of signal for a few days, but to EVERYONE who’s commented, shared & supported this project... THANK YOU so much 😊
Yup, that happened! At 5:24pm today we swum BACK into England 😊 Scotland has been INCREDIBLE and we’re so sad to leave, but so happy to be swimming in English waters again! Now onwards to Margate
#greatbritishswim
THANK YOU to what I call the
#GreatBritishSwim
family 😊 Basically everyone who’s ever liked, shared or viewed a video and been part of this adventure! May we ALL continue to naively start things beyond our capabilities and then be too stubborn quit 😊
Exactly 1 year ago the
#GreatBritishSwim
started on Margate beach, England 🇬🇧 “Be naive enough to start, but stubborn enough to finish” 🔱 June 1, 2018 🔱 Feeling VERY nostalgic & grateful today 😊
Cannot WAIT to swim with everyone tomorrow (and add the final few bananas to the tally, haha) 😃
#greatbritishswim
Never thought I’d be this happy to see land! See link below for the penultimate episode and how I’ve been prepping for life on land 😊 here:
Weekend plans inspired by American Novelist Jack Kerouac “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain”🏔
BEYOND grateful 😊
At 5-ft-9, covered in sea ulcer scars
#RhinoNeck
& with a penchant for bananas 🍌 I’m so INSANELY appreciative to
@MensHealthUK
A MASSIVE honour BUT more than that, I hope this represents a change in the industry where we celebrate “instruments not ornaments”
I wasn’t alone on today’s swim 😃 JUST INCREDIBLE! Also SO important we look after our oceans and sea life and if the
#GreatBritishSwim
and moments like this spread that message, I will consider ALL the chaffing, salt mouth and jelly fish stings worth it 😊 (RT if you can)
NEW Adventure! On June 1st I attempt the FIRST swim ALL the way around mainland Great Britain & complete the longest island sea swim
#GreatBritishSwim
✅ 100 days
✅ Over 2,700km in total
✅ 30km to 50km per day
✅ NEVER touching land
✅ Fuelled on 1 million calories
Hill sprints to recalibrate the mind. Inspired by Emil Zátopek “It's at the borders of pain & suffering that the men are separated from the boys. If you want to win something, run the 100m. If you want to experience something, run a marathon." More coming soon with
@Gymshark
🦈
ARRIVAL PARTY
#GreatBritishSwim
- WHEN: 7am, Sunday 4th November
- WHERE: Margate
*ALSO
@redbulluk
will be arranging for me & 300 swimmers to form a flotilla as we swim in together! Spaces will be limited but entires open THURSDAY 25th OCTOBER, 10AM on the Red Bull website 😊
Some days you dance with the ocean. Other days you spar with the ocean. But to swim around Great Britain you need to pack both your dancing shoes and boxing gloves 😊 Today we sparred a little for 11 miles
#GreatBritishSwim
Maybe (JUST maybe) we can almost, possibly, hopefully begin to dream of a
#greatbritishswim
finish line 😊 IF/when we make it EVERYONE who’s supported this on social media will be invited to the
@redbulluk
party at Margate so I can hug and thank you in person 😊
The
#GreatBritishSwim
has taught me time and again that you find the most honest version of yourself in complete exhaustion! For some people that’s a good thing, for others maybe not as there are no (social media) “smoke and mirrors” to hide behind 😊
World’s best swimming pool? 😊 So sorry we can’t swim closer to shore (we get so many INCREDIBLY kind messages) But we HAVE to swim 12 hours a day & sleep, eat & recover in between to finish before winter! BUT for Margate
@redbulluk
are arranging a HOOGE
#greatbritishswim
party
The ONLY logical way to celebrate any birthday... train biceps and eat burgers with my little/big brother
@LiamHemsworth
🍔 An absolute weapon, the only thing bigger than his 50kg weighted pull-ups is his appetite 😂 🔱
#SumoSwimmers
#SumoSurfers
Scotland’s sea taught me you find the most honest version of yourself in complete exhaustion! For some people that’s a good thing, for others maybe not as there are no (social media) “smoke & mirrors” to hide behind 😊 Image after a week of no sleep & 100 miles
#GreatBritishSwim
Thank you SO much for all the birthday messages... I’ve had THE best 35 years on this earth, feel SO incredibly lucky and CANNOT think of a better place to sit, reflect and plan many more adventures 🙏 💕
10 miles done ✅
Amazing moonlight 😊
Now eat, sleep & repeat in 6 hours! Every 6 hours! Until we reach Margate 😊
#GreatBritishSwim
(Note: I’m the small pink dot, haha)
Series FINALE of
#SinkOrSwim
tonight at 9:15pm on
@Channel4
as the team attempt to swim a relay across the English Channel AFTER ONLY learning to swim 12 WEEKS BEFORE! Regardless of the outcome, they’re already ALL heroes raising SO much for
@su2cuk
🙏
Officially 100 days swimming at sea (without touching land) 😊 which was celebrated with an IMMENSE air show in the Moray Firth from the
@redbulluk
Matadors! Just AMAZING and one swim/tide I won’t forget 😊 See latest
#greatbritishswim
episode below:
Who else would have a treadmill in their kitchen? 😂 Stepping up the “land legs” rehab this morning inspired by everyone running the London marathon tomorrow 🔱
#StrongSlippers
😂
Let’s assess the damage (eek) 😐 Project: Land Legs begins today with
@vivobarefoot
We’ll be producing videos with the sports scientists to document it all & compare it to when I ran 30 marathons in 30 days a year ago (when this photo was taken before a V02 test) 😊
“Civilise the mind... but make savage the body” 🔱 Words CANNOT describe the strength & conditioning savagery that’s going down in Byron Bay right now with my brobarian of the barbell
@chrishemsworth
💪🏽
The beard is BACK, haha 😂 Introducing Captain Bubble Beard who’s conducting media interviews today, haha 😂 (But jokes aside) you’re all AMAZING! Blown away today by the support after the
#greatbritishswim
was nominated for World Swim of the Year 😃
Media done ✅ Now to fly to America for interviews to thank EVERYONE for their IMMENSE support 😊 (See final
#GreatBritishSwim
episode through link below to see people flew from the US for the finish! I had NO words... just INSANE gratitude)
Records are (obviously) nice 😊 But they are just (pleasant) bi-products of the speed we had to set for a chance to swim around Great Britain in the weather window that is the British Summer 😊 NEW
#GreatBritishSwim
@RedBullUK
episode live! See here:
Do I like night swims? I often reply with a quote from Martin Luther King "Only in the darkness can you see the stars" followed by a quote from William Shakespeare, "There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so." Basically it's all perception
#GreatBritishSwim
😊
“Sink or Swim” airs tonight on
@Channel4
(9:30pm) as 10 celebrities take on the English Channel to raise money for
@su2cuk
💪🏽 Wanted to give a MASSIVE shout out to the legends behind the cameras who’ve worked SO hard over the last 10 weeks to make this happen 🔱
'False Start' to 2021 after testing positive for Covid 😬 Obviously far from ideal, but very grateful family and friends are all ok. Anyway now I’ll completely isolate for 2 weeks and adjust my
#Gymshark66
training whilst my immune system lays the smackdown on the virus 🥊
Britain’s coastline is STUNNING and I’ve loved ALL of it! But tomorrow I arrive BACK in the waters of my home county of LINCOLNSHIRE 😊 So so so happy 😁
#greatbritishswim
Building HORSEPOWER with the most genetically gifted brobarian I’ve ever shared a barbell with
@chrishemsworth
whilst I can’t reveal what he’s training for... I can reveal that training with him is like training with a thoroughbred horse... his work capacity is UNREAL 💪🏽
Distance, speed & time almost irrelevant... just great to be back in the pool 😊 Are you training, eating, celebrating, resting or ALL the above this Christmas? 🎄
IMPORTANT POST😊 As
#SinkOrSwim
airs on
@Channel4
let’s take a moment to remember the HERO Captain Webb who on 25 August 1875 achieved what many believed was impossible; the first 21 mile crossing of the English Channel
RT so his legend isn’t forgotten 🔱
Leg Rehab Begins 😊 Tomorrow the
@vivobarefoot
sports scientists will assess the damage (eek) & toll the
#greatbritishswim
has had on my feet, legs & running biomechanics! As always I will be documenting the good, bad and ugly so together we can collectively learn
#GuineaPig
😊
Thank you SO much for the birthday messages 😊 Celebrating in Grimsby fish dock with family in my new Viking helmet! Because... well...
#greatbritishswim
😂 haha
Gyms (in England) are OPEN 🤩 Obviously I’m lifting anything and everything to celebrate, haha 😂 But in all seriousness, it’s a great day for the many who rely on the gym for their physical and mental health 💪🏽
#GymsharkFamilia
🦈
Finish date (in Margate) 😊 As SOON as we can give an accurate date I PROMISE to let you all know, but could, maybe, possibly be as little as 2 weeks now (fingers crossed/touch wood) 🤞🏼
#greatbritishswim
The
#GreatBritishSwim
can be brutal at times, but equally it can be SUCH a privilege when you get up at 3:30am & swim for 10 miles playing hide and seek with dolphins
#Blessed
| (If you can please) RT & let’s keep our oceans clean so moments like this aren’t so rare 😊
BBQ Brotherhood 😊Finishing a year of adventures the right way... BBQ ribs served with a side helping of EPIC stories at
@royalmarines
@antmiddleton
cannot wait to witness your 2019 brother 😊 One of the most IMMENSE humans I’ve ever met
#EatEverest
#CinnamonSwirl
#Feral
THANK YOU (again) SO much 😊 Because of the sheer support everyone has shown the
#greatbritishswim
it has now made it into the national news! Crazy appreciative as SO MANY people are tagging me as they watch it on
@itvnews
This may be the best one yet, haha
Tomorrow WE GO 🔱
The
#WorldsLongestSwim
for ocean conservation! Tag friends & training partners & turn on notifications as we will be uploading updates across my social media channels through the swim:
IG:
FB:
Lake District take a bow 😊 The view from top of Cat Bells was EPIC in the snow & sun! All part of project
#SeaToSummit
with
@vivobarefoot
as I continue to condition my land legs in 2019 😊
Celebrating 40 YEARS Married 🎉 Mum & Dad Edgley have been winning marriage for FOUR decades... whilst also raising 3 feral sons on land and sea 😂 MUCHOS love you 😍
#Familia
Moray Firth? Completed it ✅ It was a BRUTAL crossing (more swim than sleep) but it makes the
#greatbritishswim
map look VERY different 😊 500 miles to go... once more unto the beach 😃
BOOM! SO EXCITED to announce I’ve joined the
@gymshark
familia 🦈 I CANNOT stress how excited I am since it means more podcasts, workout vlogs, talks, tours and yup... after many meetings over barbells & burgers I can confirm there are some EPIC adventures being plotted & planned
Thank you SO much 💕 For ALL the kind messages following this week’s
#greatbritishswim
episode 😊 The familia are all doing great, but just keen to get home (via the sea at Margate/finish line) so I can administer many many hugs!
As lockdown eases in England, I will be spending 80% of my day in (or around) lakes, oceans & rivers to make up for lost time (the other 20% trail running or raiding a fridge)😅 Hope everyone’s well & keeping safe and healthy 💪🏽
BOOM! Legend has it the MASSIVE man heroes
@antmiddleton
and
@Ed_Stafford
will be at Margate beach tomorrow 😊 SO excited to catch up with two GREAT British adventurers of our time & compare notes over pizza and pastries, haha
#GreatBritishSwim
Phew 😅 Media tour done! Now for a holiday/rehab 😊 (Maybe somewhere with sea & sand, BUT less angry jellyfish, haha)
#greatbritishswim
Also I WILL try & reply to messages/emails & SO sorry for my slow reply, life has been (pleasantly) manic since arriving back on land, haha 😊
Harsh reality of months at sea swimming
#greatbritishswim
😊 Excited to get back on land for my foot rehab with the heroes
@VIVOBAREFOOT
as I learn to walk (& run) again after the tiny ligaments, tendons and muscles in my feet have atrophied (shrunk) maybe
#GreatBritishSwimRun
😉
THANK YOU 😊 Getting SO many messages of support (about my feet) but honestly I am fine 😊 We’re regularly doing medical checks and I’m healthy as a (sea) horse, haha! And YES, in 600 miles I finish. I can touch land and I can get a pedicure, haha 😂
#GreatBritishSwim
SO EXCITED 😆 I’ve never been to Bristol (on land, 😂) but last time I was here I was in the Bristol Channel with these guys 😊 Which is why it feels AMAZING to do the FIRST show of
#TheWorldsFittestTour
here TONIGHT 😃 SEE LINK BELOW FOR DATES & VENUES):
North East England 🏴 You’re AMAZING! Spending 12 hours a day in the cold North Sea is well worth the front row seat to the 10 minute “show” where the sun sits perfectly on the horizon 😊
#greatbritishswim
After many miles & a triathlon carrying a tree 😊 Today I retire my favourite
@vivobarefoot
trainers... I’ve had these 5 years & genuinely emotional since even wore them during my
#GreatBritishSwim
‘land leg’ rehab BUT cannot wait to see what adventures the new pair go on 😉
Night shift swims 😐 Left alone with your own thoughts (and jellyfish, haha) which can be good or bad depending on your mood! THE most important time to swim with a smile 😊 Image by Brother in Wrath
@JamesAppleton86
#greatbritishswim
Happy Birthday to the
@royalmarines
Cannot thank you enough for continually allowing me to train at Lympstone 😊 Adopting me like a feral, sea-dwelling mammal who hangs out in your pool to train, haha 😃
Reflecting on an INCREDIBLE 2019 and feeling VERY grateful to everyone who’s followed, “liked” or shared this year’s projects 😊 As for 2020, I hope you’re all “naive enough to start & stubborn enough to finish” whatever adventures you set out to achieve 🔱
#RhinoNeck
Hello America 🇺🇸 Your food game is STRONG out here 😃 I’ve been on land 5 days & I’m about to make up for a summer of missed ice cream and cheesecake, haha
#greatbritishswim
@redbulluk