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I'm training to swim one mile in open water in Lake Windermere as part of the Great North Swim 2012.

This is a really big challenge for me, I only started swimming 'properly' in 2011, taking beginners lessons in Crosby baths and eventually feeling confident enough to contemplate the possibility of swimming in open water.

I'm hoping to join the open water training session on 9th June in Lake Windermere to get over my nerves about swimming in a lake - if you know me, you'll know about my vivid imagination and my fear that the Loch Ness monster will somehow travel to Windermere just to make me swim faster!!

I'll be doing my best to overcome my nerves and my memory of my Mum and Dad will keep me going.

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