{"id":1197,"date":"2013-06-19T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2013-06-19T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T11:21:48","slug":"big-ricks-swim-team-channel-swim-3-weeks-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/big-ricks-swim-team-channel-swim-3-weeks-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ricks Swim Team – Channel Swim – 3 weeks to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2012 Big Ricks Swim Team got within half a mile of completing a double swim of the English channel, but due to extreme weather fog,rain,8 ft waves ,force 5 winds, strong sea swells (just a normal day in the channel really) , the swim was\u00a0eventually\u00a0stopped , our pilot Mr Freddy Mardle had let us swim on for 4 hrs through the bad weather hoping against hope it would clear enough for us to be able to finish \u00a0but sadly the weather to get even worse as we approached Dover as darkness fell , so after swimming for more than 22 hours Fred had to stop the swim due to his growing concerns for not only for the\u00a0safety of the swimmer in Water , but also for the\u00a0safety of the 9 soles on board\u00a0the Masterpiece boat , it was the correct\u00a0decision off course , \u00a0we loved Fred words after we finally arrived back in folkestone\u00a0harbour \u00a0at 2 am some 26 hours after we left.. ..Well Lads you did okay , you almost made it, i know you are down and disappointed now , but Ha that’s\u00a0channel swimming for you…Everyday is different , Everyday brings a new\u00a0challenge , if it was easy everyone would be doing it..!!, \u00a0just be\u00a0glad\u00a0your safe and well and able to try again.!! .. every channel swimmer knows Captain Webb`s famous remarks about swimming the Channel….”” Nothing Great Is Easy,”” he can say that again..\"BigRicks2011\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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After a long hard \u00a0re think and then some arm twisting we decided to come \u00a0back for one final \u00a0go at the English channel ( and it will be our last swim )….! Sure we are older ,sure we are even balder and most of us a lot fatter than last year , \u00a0but we are also wiser ….!!! Hmm well okay maybe only Darran and maybe\u00a0Gary are wiser but we are Back anyway..!Why….Because\u00a0The Ricks show Must must go on .!…we cannot stop just\u00a0because\u00a0our pride was hurt by not\u00a0completing last years challenge ..!\u00a0 Sooo \u00a0A \u00a0Double English channel re-match has been arranged \u00a0for July 14th to 19th 2013…We are the same Team of \u00a0Fun ugly chubby middle aged men from the west midlands \u00a0, but\u00a0 this year \u00a0there is change, an very important change, We are swimming the 2 way under a new \u00a0team name ” Pip`s Double Channel Swim Team ” in memory of Big Ricks Swimmer Richard \u00a0Brownjohn\u2019s \u00a0partner the\u00a0beautiful\u00a0and charming\u00a0Phillipa\u00a0“Pip” Thomas who lost her 2 yr fight with breast cancer just a few months ago
\n…wish us luck…Ricks & PIps\"ChannelBigRicks2011<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2012 Big Ricks Swim Team got within half a mile of completing a double swim of the English channel, but due to extreme weather fog,rain,8 ft waves ,force 5 winds, strong sea swells (just a normal day in the channel really) , the swim was\u00a0eventually\u00a0stopped , our pilot Mr Freddy Mardle had let us … Continue reading Big Ricks Swim Team – Channel Swim – 3 weeks to go<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/perrybeechesswimming.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}