{"id":65847,"date":"2018-11-05T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/05\/chunks-of-my-tongue-came-off-you-could-see-the-tastebuds-ross-edgley-on-swimming-around-great-britain\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:39:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:39:52","slug":"chunks-of-my-tongue-came-off-you-could-see-the-tastebuds-ross-edgley-on-swimming-around-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=65847","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Chunks of my tongue came off \u2013 you could see the tastebuds&#039;: Ross Edgley on swimming around Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fitness expert survived raw wounds and jellyfish stings, braved storms and emptied a 5kg bucket of petroleum jelly to complete the record-breaking feat of mental and physical endurance. So, is he a masochist?Ross Edgley, who has just become the first man to swim around Great Britain, is trying to describe what it feels like to have your tongue disintegrate. \u201cI realised something was bad when I woke up with chunks of it on my pillow,\u201d he recalls. The flesh was translucent, but otherwise a lot like beef stroganoff or slow-cooked pork. \u201cIt\u2019s that tender, you\u2019re just pulling strips off,\u201d says Edgley energetically. \u201cYou could see the tastebuds on it, it was that thick.\u201dEndurance swimmers call it salt mouth \u2013 the effect of seawater buildup in your mouth and throat. Edgley\u2019s was at its worst as he passed Dungeness in early June, about 85 hours of swimming after setting out from Margate harbour. \u201cEven a week in, it went from being a swim as most people consider it, as a sport, to being a survival exercise,\u201d he says. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2018\/nov\/05\/chunks-of-my-tongue-came-off-you-could-see-the-tastebuds-ross-edgley-on-swimming-around-great-britain\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Chunks of my tongue came off \u2013 you could see the tastebuds&#039;: Ross Edgley on swimming around Great Britain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fitness expert survived raw wounds and jellyfish stings, braved storms and emptied a 5kg bucket of petroleum jelly to complete the record-breaking feat of mental and physical endurance. So, is he a masochist?Ross Edgley, who has just become the first man to swim around Great Britain, is trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}