UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) -- A woman from the Upper East Side plans to swim the English Channel in her final quest to achieve the triple crown of swimming.

At 47 years old, Fleur Sohtz's secret to long distance, open water swimming is eating... lots of eating, while swimming.

"Every 30 minutes, they are throwing off the boat to me what's called the feed," said Sohtz, who is a long-distance swimmer. "It's a bottle, where I'll have electrolytes and then I'll have gels wrapped around it. And for this swim, where the water's a little colder, I'll have a container with normally cakes or cookies inside of that."

She will have her cake and eat it too while swimming across the English Channel. Her team will throw it to her in plastic containers. Every 30 minutes, she will have 30 secon

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