Super swimmer Kev Brady completes his 220-mile River Severn challenge
Record-breaker Kev Brady today became the first person to swim the length of the River Severn after passing through Shropshire earlier this month.
The 32-year-old was this evening celebrating the end of his mammoth 220-mile journey, which took him though Bridgnorth, Shrewsbury and Ironbridge along the way.
It ended on Severn Beach in Bristol where Mr Brady was met by cheering crowds.
The swim has raised money for the Superhero Foundation, a charity which Mr Brady, from Gloucestershire, co-founded with his cousin and fellow endurance athlete Jamie McDonald.
The charity helps families that need funds to access otherwise inaccessible treatments for mental or physical illness.
During his swim through Shropshire Mr Brady revealed that although he had expected it to be an intense challenge, it had turned out to be much harder than he had imagined.
He said: "The water is much colder than I thought it would be, and when I first started this swim the most I could do was an hour at a time – but now I can do two hours.
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"I tend to break the day down into one or two hour swimming sessions, doing three or four of those sessions per day and covering about eight miles in total.
"I am not making progress as fast as I expected because the current is not as strong as I hoped – I have been told that the Severn currently has its lowest flow rate in the last thirty years.
"It means that at the end of each day's swim I feel completely wrecked."
