Hard work is so often the answer and the question is so often irrelevant.

If you focus on the process the outcome is inevitable.

You have just spent the last 157 days to become the first swimmer

to circumnavigate the whole of Great Britain.

This wasn't a physical experiment, it was mental.

You're alone with your own thoughts.

Your true self will be revealed to you whether you like it or not.

I remember thinking, why are you doing this?

The wounds are open wounds just chafing the salt,

or your tongues falling apart.

You've not been warm for 157 days.

You're scraping ice off your wetsuit.

I want to be warm and just have Sunday dinner with my family. As humans we don't need a lot to be happy.

This was kind of born out of a failure, right?

I had failed to swim from St Lucia to Martini.

I didn't do what I said I was going to do.

It lit a fire under my belly.

I kind of wanted that fairy tale ending

and then got it. For those people to come out at the end I felt

reverberated across the sea, the energy. I think you were feeling this

overwhelming connectivity,

spirit of life.

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