English Channel qualifier- not doing that again! Except, yeah, I am ðŸ˜
On October 11th at 9:30 a.m. I began my 6-hour sub-60° Fahrenheit English Channel qualifier at Sellwood Park on the banks of the Willamette river. The day before I checked the conditions at the English Channel finding the weather better, the water and air warmer. I had not prepared all my feeds in advance so that there was a little to do that morning. I used oat milk, oat milk with espresso, cluster dextrin with maple syrup and electrolytes, and Tailwind for my feeds. Amanda came over and helped me with my feeds before taking me to Sellwood, I would definitely have been late to the start without her. A note on the feeds: Of all the feeds the cluster dextrin was the least irritating to my stomach and then the oat milk. The oat milk with coffee did not settle so well but stayed down. (You might be wondering why I'm adding this part in, if you have read this blog for any kind of time you know that I frequently do not keep my feeds down.) I did have...