Big Ricks English Channel Training 2018

Team story
Big Ricks Swim Team is a group of six swimmers from Great Britain

 hoping to break the world record for crossing the English Channel FOUR times

 in a row later this year. 

this simply put means swimming to France and the back to England ,

then swimming back to france and finally swimming back to England  

Our team consists of Paul , Charlie , Stuart , Ross , Ryan and Melanie , with the lovely Caroline in reserve.

We're taking on the gruelling challenge to raise money for both the Royal National Lifeboat Institute and British Heart Foundation with 50% of the total raised going to each charity.

The current record for the ‘quadruple-swim’ is held by a Mexican team at 42 hours and 11 minutes. The only other team to have ever completed the challenge is from Australia. If we finish the swim, we’ll be the first European team to do so.

Training has started in earnest and we’ll keep the page updated with all our preparations