Getting on with it....

Nearly half way

After a 2.5km swim today I have now completed 34,086m.  Today's swim also proved to me how much my fitness has improved since I had to go to the Royal Commonwealth Pool and it was set up in 50m long lanes, which are more tiring than 25m lengths when you lack stamina.

I had to go there since I was using the bus to get to the pool, Scotland were playing England this afternoon in the Calcutta Cup and Six Nations Rugby International Series, so moving my car was not an option.  The game has just finished with Scotland winning 15 - 9.   From my house I can hear the fans singing in the stadium and also streaming out of the ground - the smiles on the Scottish fans faces are massive.  But, that's because we expected a drubbing.

Back to my swimming and the 34km distance, that I have now reached, is 1km more than the narrowest crossing of the Strait of Dover. 

It seems appropriate to mention that since Sport Relief events are taking place at the moment and David Walliams swam the Channel to raise funds for this event in 2006.  This year he joined James Cracknell to complete the last leg of a multi-discipline challenge he has completed for the 2008 event - a swim across the Strait of Gibraltar to North Africa.  Compared with the 20 mile channel swim the 12 mile distance must have seemed like a sprint to Walliams!

My own sponsorship figure in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care through Swimathon 2008 has now reached £430 which is way beyond my expectations at the beginning of this challenge.  However, don't let that stop you from taking it even higher, since I still have 35,914m to go.

Posted at 05:55PM Mar 08, 2008 by Ann-Marie Jamieson in Personal  |  Comments[0]