Athlete-adventurer Ross Edgley prefaces a lot of his anecdotes with: “And this is really interesting”. Usually people follow this phrase with something unbearably banal. But as the first and only person to swim around Great Britain, Edgley’s brilliantly barmy anecdotes live up to their billing.
On the day of our conversation, he’s fresh from spending six hours face down in a Scottish loch in preparation for his next challenge: circumnavigating Iceland as a swimmer. After we wrap up our interview, the Myprotein athlete will head back out for another six-hour stint. But this next expedition is more than just a physical test, he tells me.
