It all started and ended in Margate, Kent.
On November 4, 2018, Ross Edgley became the first person to swim around mainland Great Britain.
on 1 June and has endured 37 jellyfish stings, a rotting tongue, suspected torn shoulder and an open neck wound from chafing that even his 3kg of Vaseline could not heal.
Having swum 12 hours a day for almost the distance of London to Moscow (1,796 miles), the strongman admitted feeling a bit wobbly as he was accompanied for the final kilometre by 300 fellow swimmers before being reunited with family and friends.
“I just got really choked up and had to put my goggles on because I was starting to cry. It was amazing,” he said, after a warm shower and pizza.
To fuel his bonkers feat, Edgley consumed between 10,000 and 15,000 calories each day – up to six times the male average – and wolfed down pizza, pasta, rice pudding, 610 bananas and 314 cans of Red Bull, which backed his challenge.
His mother’s homemade cheesecake was “hard to get out on the boat,” he said, and now on dry land he has a whole summer of barbecues to catch up on.
This is not the first time Ross has done something crazy!
The Loughborough University graduate has form when it comes to attempting the outlandish.
In recent years he’s climbed the height of Everest on a rope in one sitting,
run a marathon while dragging a Mini behind him,
and swum 100km (62 miles) in the Caribbean in just 32 hours while attached to a 100lb (45.4kg) log.
The swim around Great Britain was the toughest of them all though.
Ross Edgely is also author to “The World’s Fittest Book.”
Ross Edgely, the Bulletproofbodies Team Salute You.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gSe42VB968
