A Long Swim Part 1- An Interview With Doug & Susan McConnell Podcast #337

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🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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There are 7 billion people walking the earth right now. There have been 5,000 people who have successfully summited Mount Everest. Just over 1600 human beings have swam the English channel- Today’s guests are Doug and Susan McConnell. Doug is only the 48th person over the age of 50 to successfully swim the English Channel. But he could not have done it without his team led by his wife Susan. In this two part interview- Doug shares with us how the idea came up as a gag over a few glasses of wine to a commitment that changed the direction of his life. He tells us about the obstacles namely sharks, hypothermia and how he navigated past each one of them and he sets the record straight of the old wives tale of whether or not it helps to pee on a jelly fish stings. To learn more about the MCconnell’s effort to raise awareness about ALS, please visit http://www.alongswim.com/

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0:00.0	There are 7 billion people walking the earth right now. There have been 5,000 people who have successfully
0:06.3	submitted Mount Everest. Just over 1,600 human beings have swam the English Channel. Today's guests are Doug and
0:14.2	Susan McConnell. Doug is only the 48th person over the age of 50 to successfully swim the English Channel.
0:22.9	In this two-part interview, Doug shares with us how the idea came up as a gag over a few
0:27.9	glasses of wine to a commitment that changed the direction of his life.
0:32.9	You know, the whole idea of the English Channelim came up over a glass of wine one night.
0:39.0	I will be the first to admit.
0:41.6	And we talked about it a day or so later, and I said, look, you know, this sounds like a fun, you know, sort of odyssey, but it's crazy.
0:51.1	It is really nuts.
0:52.7	And I said it's going to be able.
0:55.0	But he could not have done it without his team led by his wife, Susan.
0:59.2	Stay in the water for 10 and a half hours.
1:02.1	Well, we had to count his strokes too. We count his strokes for one minute every 10 minutes.
1:06.6	Why?
1:06.8	Why?
1:07.0	Because that tells you how your swimmer is doing.
1:10.5	He tells us about the obstacles, namely sharks, hypothermia,
1:15.2	and how he navigated past each one of them,
1:17.8	and he sets the record straight of the old wives' tale
1:20.7	of whether or not it helps to pee on jellyfish stinks.
1:24.0	I swam in California, where we swam from Catalina Island to Long Beach, and I was stung hundreds of times on that time.
1:34.0	It was really tough.
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