Charlie Vercoe

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799 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 26 Jun

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So that particular incident was my first year training for the race.

It was my first time back swimming since off-season.

And so I thought I was fitter than I was, and I ended up doing a paddle from Malabar into Camp Cove.

So it's about 20 kilometers.

Whoa.

And the whole last 10 kilometers from Bondi, where there's no points you can get out until you finish.

Yeah, because they've got the gap, they've got the cliff there.

Yeah, yeah, all massive cliffs.

And again, I set a huge swell, so you don't want to mess around with it.

But there was also a big current going against me.

So it just ended up taking me half an hour, 45 minutes than I'd planned.

And that was where it came back to that.

You described a meditative state is that you can learn to train your thoughts a little bit and

I was, I've had pretty awful thoughts out there, but you just learn to kind of go, okay, that thought can't hurt me.

You just got to let it go.

I'm going to get back.

You just, I just got to be patient and I'm just going to be scared for the whole time I'm paddling back.

And accept it.

Absolutely.

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