By Charlotte Wells on SwimSwam Neil Gilson, a former competitive swimmer turned father of one, broke a 38-year-old record after swimming the length of Lake Geneva in mid-July. The 38-year-old North Devon native completed the feat in 22 hours and nine minutes, chopping 33 minutes off of the previous record which had been set back in 1986 by Swiss Olympian Alain Charmey. Gilson, who represented Great Britain at the national level in his twenties, first attempted the 73 kilometer (45 mile) swim a year ago but had to be extracted at the 56-kilometer mark after he developed hypothermia. This time, fueled by a mixture of energy gels, donuts and bananas, Gilson effectively etched his name into the
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