Fitness nut who swam the entire coast of Great Britain and did a marathon dragging a CAR behind him
, he said: “I remember this felt different, and it was searing into my skin almost like a hot poker. Like someone was holding a hot poker to your face, that’s how it felt.
And he looked down at me and he goes, ‘Yes, I know, because the jellyfish is still wrapped around your face.” Ross’ achievements have gone down in the record books as the first person to swim the entire south coast, the fastest person to swim from Land’s End to John O’Groats and, most impressively, the world’s longest staged sea swim.
He added: “People went, ‘run a marathon’, and I was like ‘oh people have done that, no one’s gonna give me money for that.’
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